Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Nov. 13, 2012
Price: DVD $29.95, Blu-ray $39.95
Studio: Criterion
Weekend, the scathing 1967 comedy-satire film by France’s legendary Jean-Luc Godard (Histoires du Cinema), remains one of modern cinema’s great anarchic works.
Western civilization crashes and burns in Godard's Weekend.
Determined to collect an inheritance from a dying relative, a bourgeois couple (Jean Yanne and Mireille Darc) travel across the French countryside while civilization crashes and burns around them. After their own car is destroyed, the pair wanders through a series of vignettes involving class struggle and figures from literature and history, revealing a world that is at once humorous and beautiful, and senseless and frightening
Featuring a justly famous centerpiece sequence in which the camera tracks along a seemingly endless traffic jam (the single shot runs for some eight minutes), Weekend is a surreal, funny and disturbing call for revolution, a depiction of society retreating to savagery, and—according to the credits—the end of cinema itself.
Weekend was previously issued on DVD in the U.S. in 2005 by the now-defunct New Yorker Films, but has long been out-of-print. Criterion’s release represents the film’s return to DVD, as well as its Blu-ray debut.
Presented in French with English subtitles, the DVD
• New, restored high-definition digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
• New video essay by film critic Kent Jones
• Archival interviews with actors Mireille Darc and Jean Yanne and assistant director Claude Miller
• Excerpt from a French television program on director Jean-Luc Godard, featuring on-set footage of Weekend shot by filmmaker Philippe Garrel
• Trailers
• A booklet featuring an essay by critic and novelist Gary Indiana
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