This film put me off the first time I saw it, probably because of the way it falls apart structurally and turns into something else completely. After a few more viewings I think this film is a near-masterpiece. The story of a couple's weekend trip to the country.....actually that's all wrong. It starts out like that, but before long the couple is in an apocalyptic wasteland in the French countryside. Bloody car accidents, death, band of guerrillas, etc. A truly experimental and visionary political manifesto of sorts. This is the film where Godard really broke free from all narrative constraints and started to do his own thing. I still think the man himself can be a bit of a pompous jerk (like when he expressed his disgust at the route fellow New Wave filmmaker Francois Truffaut had chosen to go), but he is also a great filmmaker.
Review of Weekend
