Weekend

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Weekend is a 1967 French black comedy and satirical road movie by Jean-Luc Godard, renowned for its anarchic style, long tracking shots, and scathing critique of consumerism and bourgeois society.

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Weekend canonical 2
Week End 1

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instanceOf black comedy film
film
road movie
satirical film
cinematographyBy Raoul Coutard
containsElement breaking the fourth wall
intertitles
surreal imagery
containsScene extended traffic jam sequence
countryOfOrigin France
criticalReception acclaimed by film critics
director Jean-Luc Godard
directorStatement announced as the end of cinema by Godard in publicity
distributor Athos Films
filmingLocation France
filmingTechnique long tracking shots
sequence shots
follows a bourgeois couple on a road trip
genre black comedy
road movie
satire
hasColorProcess color
hasNarrativeStructure episodic
hasTheme class conflict
consumer culture
social criticism
violence
influenced experimental narrative film
political cinema
movement avant-garde cinema
musicBy Antoine Duhamel
notableFor anarchic style
critique of bourgeois society
critique of consumerism
long tracking shots
originalLanguage French
partOf French New Wave
portrays collapse of bourgeois society
producer Georges de Beauregard
ratedAs cult film
releaseYear 1967
runningTime 105 minutes
setInPeriod contemporary France
stars Jean Yanne
Mireille Darc
writer Jean Yanne
Jean-Luc Godard

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Jean-Luc Godard notableWork Weekend
Jean Yanne actedIn Weekend
this entity surface form: Week End