Weekend: Distinction Series

French filmmaker Jean Luc Godard’s Weekend remains his most consistently relentless attack on the bourgeois values of his own country and the perceived imperialism of the United States. Mireille Darc plays the central character, an “average” woman who is systematically radicalized during a weekend motor trip. No sooner have the woman and her husband Jean Yanne embarked on their journey than they become enmeshed in the mother of all traffic jams. The motorists rave, rant, burn, rape, murder, pillage and even descend into cannibalism all of which is treated by Godard as a natural progression of events.