Weekend (1967): Cast & Plot
Weekend is a 1967 crime comedy directed by Jean-Luc Godard, starring Jean Yanne as Roland Durand, Mireille Darc and Jean-Pierre Léaud. It runs 1 hour 44 minutes.
- Released
- Runtime
- 1h 44m (104 min)
- Director
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Original language
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French - Studio
- Cinecidi
- After the credits
- No No extra scene
What Is Weekend About?
The premise of Weekend without spoilers. The whole story is in the plot summary further down.
The film follows a seemingly peaceful weekend getaway to the French countryside that quickly devolves into a relentless nightmare of endless traffic snarls, revolution, gruesome cannibalism and brutal murders, exposing the collapse of bourgeois complacency under its own consumerist excesses.
Weekend Themes & Keywords
· 50 tags- traffic jam
- setting someone on fire
- car accident
- violence
- surrealism
- satire
- car crash
- graphic violence
- sadism
- murder
- honking horn
- rabbit
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- anarchism
- on the road
- road accident
- rear end collision
- farce
- car damage
- misanthropy
- nihilism
- long take
- rich couple
- experimental film
- cruelty
- cannibalism
- killing a pig
- terrorism
- actual animal killed
- killed in car accident
- car
- dark comedy
- weekend
- married couple
- inheritance
- killing someone for an inheritance
- fatal car accident
- motor vehicle
- road traffic
- driving a car
- car wreck
- collision
- honking car horn
- reckless driver
- gun
- attempted carjacking
- held at gunpoint
- french new wave
- dystopia
- dada
- orgy
Weekend Cast & Characters
Jean Yanne leads the cast as Roland Durand, with Mireille Darc as Corinne Durand and Jean-Pierre Léaud as Saint-Just / Le Jeune Minet du 16ème (uncredited). Directed by Jean-Luc Godard; 25 actors are credited in all.
- Director Jean-Luc Godard
- Jean Yanne as Roland Durand
- Mireille Darc as Corinne Durand
- Jean-Pierre Léaud as Saint-Just / Le Jeune Minet du 16ème (uncredited)
- Blandine Jeanson as Emily Bronte (uncredited)
Also Starring in Weekend
· 21 more- Jean-Pierre Kalfon Le Chef du Front de Libération de la Seine et Oise
- Juliet Berto Une Activiste du FLSO / Jeune Bourgeoise Accidentée (uncredited)
- Anne Wiazemsky Une Fille à la Ferme (uncredited)
- Jean Eustache L'Auto-Stoppeur (uncredited)
- László Szabó L'Arabe (uncredited)
- Yves Afonso Gros Poucet (uncredited)
- Valérie Lagrange La Femme du Chef du FLSO (uncredited)
- Georges Staquet Le Conducteur du Tracteur (uncredited)
- Yves Beneyton Un Membre du FLSO (uncredited)
- Ernest Menzer Ernest - le Cuisinier / Le Boucher du FLSO (uncredited)
- Daniel Pommereulle Joseph Balsamo (uncredited)
- Virginie Vignon Marie-Madeleine (uncredited)
- Paul Gégauff Le Pianiste (uncredited)
- Helen Scott Woman in Car (uncredited)
- Michèle Breton Girl in the Woods (uncredited)
- Louis Jojot Monsieur Jojot (uncredited)
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- Omar Diop Mon Frère Africain (uncredited)
- Lex De Bruijn Revolutionary (uncredited)
- Jean-Claude Guilbert Le Clochard (uncredited)
- Michel Cournot Man From Farmyard (uncredited)
- Isabelle Pons
More from Jean-Luc Godard
More films directed by Jean-Luc Godard: Sang titre, In the Darkness of Time, Liberty and Homeland and Plus oh!.
Weekend Plot Summary
What happens in Weekend from start to finish, spoilers included, with a timeline of 10 key events. The opening is below; the full summary is a 2-minute read.
Spoilers ahead
Roland Durand and Corinne Durand are a bourgeois couple who each keeps a secret lover, and they conspire 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. Their plan unfolds against a backdrop of etiquette and pretension, as they navigate the fragile ties of class while weighing a dangerous gamble that could rewrite both of their lives.
Full summary
The whole story of Weekend, scene by scene
Weekend Trailers & Videos
The trailer of Weekend.
How Well Do You Know Weekend?
10 questions about the story, each with a hint if you get stuck. Pick an answer to see whether you were right.
Question 1 of 10
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- Question 10: not answered
What are the first names of the bourgeois married couple at the center of the story?
Cars in Weekend
70 cars on screen, including the 1960 Facel Véga Facellia Cabriolet and the 1961 Citroën DS 19.
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1960 Facel Véga Facellia Cabriolet Main role -
1961 Citroën DS 19 Important role -
1962 Deutz D 50.1 S Important role -
1962 Ford Consul Capri 335 Important role
Weekend Also Known As
14 alternative titles, including “Week-End” and “Le week-end”.
- Also known as
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- Week-End
- Le week-end
- Уик-энд
- Week-end, un uomo e una donna dal sabato alla domenica
- 周末
- סוף שבוע
- Haftasonu
- Utflykt i det röda
- Week-End à Francesa
- Udflugt i det røde
- 주말
- ウイークエンド
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- Viikonloppu
- 週末
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Weekend FAQ: Cast, Runtime & Release Date
Runtime, release date, director, cast, post-credit scenes and language of Weekend, each answered in a sentence.
How long is Weekend?
Weekend runs 1 hour 44 minutes (104 minutes).
When was Weekend released?
Weekend was released on December 29, 1967.
Who directed Weekend?
Weekend was directed by Jean-Luc Godard.
More films by Jean-Luc Godard Who is in the cast of Weekend?
Weekend stars Jean Yanne as Roland Durand, Mireille Darc as Corinne Durand and Jean-Pierre Léaud as Saint-Just / Le Jeune Minet du 16ème (uncredited), among 25 credited actors.
Does Weekend have a post-credit scene?
No. Weekend has no extra scene during or after the credits.
What language is Weekend in?
The original language of Weekend is French.
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