Culturally Irrelevant part 2: ‘Week End’ the end of Cinema?
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January 11, 2010
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Was Jean-Luc Godard 1967 film “Week End” truly the end of cinema? Well, not quite. It wasn’t even his last film. But after a viewing, it is understandable why even Godard himself considered it to be so. It is quite the nasty little shocker that melds the absurd with the vulgar and makes you laugh from places in your psyche you aren’t quite sure are actually there. At the center of this dystopian black comedy are the naughty bourgeois couple Roland and Corrine who are not only plotting the murder of her parent’s but each other as well, all in order to inherit a fortune. Starting off on a road trip to her parents country home to do the dirty deed, but are thwarted by traffic jams, class tensions, Emily Bronte and cannibalistic revolutionaries. The jump-cuts and randomness of the film so characteristic of French New Wave cinema may seem quite bizarre at first, but eventually it is understood and hopefully enjoyed.
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