Weekend Page #6

Synopsis: A supposedly idyllic week-end trip to the countryside turns into a never-ending nightmare of traffic jams, revolution, cannibalism and murder as French bourgeois society starts to collapse under the weight of its own consumer preoccupations.
Director(s): Jean-Luc Godard
Production: Janus Films
  1 win & 3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.3
Rotten Tomatoes:
96%
NOT RATED
Year:
1967
105 min
Website
1,905 Views


like the divine beauty of a bird.

Tell me, ancient ocean,

will you be my brother?

Ignorant of your secret destiny,

everything about you interests me.

Are you the abode

of the Prince of Darkness?

Tell me, ocean. You must tell me,

for I shall rejoice to know

that hell is so dose to men.

So once more I wish to greet you,

and bid my farewell.

Ancient ocean, I lack the power

to continue, it is the moment

to return to the brutal land of men.

Let us make a supreme effort

and, conscious of our duty,

fulfill our destiny on this earth.

Greetings, ancient ocean.

All right?

Yes!

- Please...

- Shut up!

- Let me stay with you.

- Too late.

Isabelle!

Don't wait for me.

Good-bye, Valrie.

Good-bye, Isabelle.

How happy I'd be if you knew

You, who I'm leaving tonight

That though it seems

everything's through

To others it seems it's all right

A smile, though the heart may be torn

Pretend that it's not past mending

Write the last word, so forlorn

Just a novel with an unhappy ending

JUMP CU When your foot slips on a frog,

you have a feeling of disgust.

But if you even lightly graze

a human body, your fingers fragment

like scales of mica

beneath hammer-blows.

Really?

And just as a shark's heart beats

for an hour after death,

so our guts throb

long after making love.

Why? I don't understand.

Because of man's immense horror

of his fellows.

Perhaps I may be wrong in this,

but perhaps I am right.

There must be a malady more terrible

than the swelling of eyes after

contemplating man's odd nature,

but I still seek it.

Well, Ernest?

- Not bad.

- Yes.

A mixture of pig and the leftovers

of the English tourists.

- Those from the Rolls?

- Yes.

There must be

a bit of your husband, too.

I'll have a bit more later, Ernest.

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Jean-Luc Godard

Jean-Luc Godard (French: [ʒɑ̃lyk ɡɔdaʁ]; born 3 December 1930) is a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic. He rose to prominence as a pioneer of the 1960s French New Wave film movement.Like his New Wave contemporaries, Godard criticized mainstream French cinema's "Tradition of Quality", which "emphasized craft over innovation, privileged established directors over new directors, and preferred the great works of the past to experimentation." As a result of such argument, he and like-minded critics started to make their own films. Many of Godard's films challenge the conventions of traditional Hollywood in addition to French cinema. In 1964, Godard described his and his colleagues' impact: "We barged into the cinema like cavemen into the Versailles of Louis XV." He is often considered the most radical French filmmaker of the 1960s and 1970s; his approach in film conventions, politics and philosophies made him arguably the most influential director of the French New Wave. Along with showing knowledge of film history through homages and references, several of his films expressed his political views; he was an avid reader of existential and Marxist philosophy. Since the New Wave, his politics have been much less radical and his recent films are about representation and human conflict from a humanist, and a Marxist perspective.In a 2002 Sight & Sound poll, Godard ranked third in the critics' top-ten directors of all time (which was put together by assembling the directors of the individual films for which the critics voted). He is said to have "created one of the largest bodies of critical analysis of any filmmaker since the mid-twentieth century." He and his work have been central to narrative theory and have "challenged both commercial narrative cinema norms and film criticism's vocabulary." In 2010, Godard was awarded an Academy Honorary Award, but did not attend the award ceremony. Godard's films have inspired many directors including Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino, Brian De Palma, Steven Soderbergh, D. A. Pennebaker, Robert Altman, Jim Jarmusch, Wong Kar-wai, Wim Wenders, Bernardo Bertolucci, and Pier Paolo Pasolini.From his father, he is the cousin of Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, former President of Peru. He has been married twice, to actresses Anna Karina and Anne Wiazemsky, both of whom starred in several of his films. His collaborations with Karina—which included such critically acclaimed films as Bande à part (1964) and Pierrot le Fou (1965)—was called "arguably the most influential body of work in the history of cinema" by Filmmaker magazine. more…

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