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...WEEKEND. Jean-Luc Godard gives the bourgeoisie a good drubbing in a satire that might have been sharper had its straight-faced Maoist political harangues not been so dull...
Monstrous Metamorphosis. In Weekend, Jean-Luc Godard saw the end of the world as a vast traffic jam. Bergman's concept is less visual-and more chilling. His people never see history; like radiation, it destroys them without touching them. Jan and Eva become aliens in their own marriage. They rage against their cage and at each other. As Samuel Beckett puts it, "The mortal microcosm cannot forgive the relative immortality of the macrocosm. The whiskey bears a grudge against the decanter." Half from fear, half from the desire to have the child Jan cannot give her, Eva sleeps...
...WEEKEND Jean-Luc Godard gives the bourgeoisie a good drubbing in a satire that might have been sharper had its straight-faced Maoist political harangues not been so dull...
...WEEKEND. Jean-Luc Godard excoriates the bourgeoisie in this savage satire, which would be sharper if its Maoist political harangues were not so dull...
...purpose and individuality by flashing back and forth through Joanna's life, ransacking her dreams, exploring her past and minutely exposing the style of a swinger with inventive images that linger in the retina. Not all of the film works. Its sometimes derivative surface is equally indebted to Jean-Luc Godard and shampoo commercials. Even Edgar Guest would have been embarrassed by the lyrics that Pop Poet Rod McKuen composed to match his banal score. But Same makes his cast perform with the precision and refinement of a repertory company...