Biography jean luc godard weekend trailer

Film by Jean-Luc Godard

Weekend (French: Week-end) is a 1967 postmodernblack comedy film^[2][3] written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard, based on Julio Cortázar's short story "La autopista del Sur".^[4] It stars mainstream French TV stars Mireille Darc and Jean Yanne. Jean-Pierre Léaud, comic star of numerous French New Wave films, including François Truffaut's The 400 Blows (1959) and Godard's earlier Masculin Féminin (1966), appeared in two roles. Raoul Coutard served as cinematographer.

Plot

Roland and Corinne Durand are a bourgeois couple. Each has a secret lover and conspires to murder the other. They drive to Corinne's parents' home in the country to secure her inheritance from her dying father, resolving to resort to murder if necessary. The trip becomes a chaotic journey through a French countryside populated by bizarre characters and punctuated by violent car accidents. After their own Facel-Vega is de