Week end /
Determined to collect an inheritance from a dying relative, a bourgeois couple travel across the French countryside while civilization crashes and burns around them. Featuring a justly famous centerpiece sequence in which the camera tracks along a seemingly endless traffic jam, and rich with histori...
| Uniform Title: | Week end (Motion picture : 1967) |
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| Other Authors: | , , , , , , , , , |
| Format: | Video |
| Language: | French |
| Language Notes: | In French with English subtitles and optional closed captioning. |
| Published: |
[New York] :
Criterion Collection,
[2016]
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| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | Connect to this streaming video (Kanopy) |
| Summary: | Determined to collect an inheritance from a dying relative, a bourgeois couple travel across the French countryside while civilization crashes and burns around them. Featuring a justly famous centerpiece sequence in which the camera tracks along a seemingly endless traffic jam, and rich with historical and literary references, is a surreally funny and disturbing call for revolution, a depiction of society retreating to savagery, and, according to the credits, the end of cinema itself. |
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| Item Description: | Originally produced as a motion picture in 1967. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 video file (104 min.)) |
| Production Credits: | Director of photography, Raoul Coutard ; editor, Agnès Guillemot ; music, Antoine Duhamel. |