Godard's WEEKEND - Cosford Classics
The Bill Cosford Cinema is pleased to present the release of Jean-Luc Godard's controversial classic WEEKEND on a new reissued 35mm Print. This exclusive Miami Premiere is the second in the Cosford Classic Series which brings classic films back to the big screen on 35mm celluloid. Made in 1967, anticipating the May '68 revolution in Paris, but equally relevant today with the growing class conflict between the 99 and 1%, WEEKEND is both timely and timeless. We invite you to join us for this very special presentation of this counterculture classic that shocks, provokes, and challenges the viewer.
"This apocalyptic farce-Alice in Wonderland as reconceived by the Marquis de Sade-would mark both the high point and the end of Godard's meteoric career as a popular artist."
-J. Hoberman, VILLAGE VOICE
"The film must be seen, for its power, ambition, humor, and scenes of really astonishing beauty... It is an appalling comedy. There is nothing like it at all."
-Renata Adler, NEW YORK TIMES (1968)
A benchmark of Godard's career, WEEKEND marks a rupture in this celebrated filmmakers career from BREATHLESS and CONTEMPT to his increasingly radicalized political filmmaking of the 1970s. As a film, WEEKEND is an attack on capitalism through the weekend road-trip of Corinne and Roland, a married couple who hate each other and secretly plot to kill one another. Attempting to claim an inheritance, Corinne and Roland travel to the countryside but encounter numerous interruptions including the world's worst traffic jam, an omnipotent carjacker, Emily Bronte, and a group of cannibalistic revolutionaries. Fractured and thought-provoking, WEEKEND remains one of cinema's most challenging and rewarding works. It is a work of a master filmmaker who has something important to say and an electric way of saying it. Ranked as one of the most controversial works ever committed to celluloid by PREMIERE magazine, WEEKEND is equal parts provocation and polemic exercise. Part of the Cosford Classic series and the Shock Me, Shock Me: A Cinema of Transgression series, WEEKEND is a vital part of film history as well as a controversial film (there are some images of explicit violence).
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard. Unrated.
France, 1967, 35mm Film, 105 minutes, Color, French with English Subtitles.