oh my god! there's a story in this film. well, a loose story. it's godard at his comedic best. a spoiled couple goes onto a roadtrip to a country home to extort some money from a father-in law's will. on the way, they run into a huge traffic jam on this country road. the country road centers as a weird world where normal middle class people descend into thinking they have control and a place to show off their wealth and entitlement, but quickly learn that the road has a mind of its own. there are abrupt accidents that we never see, but just burning cars and bodies. it soon becomes a place of survival where weird people come out (emily bronte, a french revolutionary, a hippie genie) spouting communist idealogy about class and wealth to these selfish brats. if anything, i think the weekend is godard's own version of how a society transforms from a bourgeois society to a communist society. the road is a road to a communist society where bourgeois, middle class people who don't heed the the lessons of the lecturing eccentrics they meet, end up in a horrible fate (that's where the cannibalism takes place) there are thoughtful and intelligent ideas about class and corruption, especially when Emily Bronte shows up and talks about the forgotten pebble as a metaphor for how industry takes things for granted.
you may not agree with Godard's politics and the ending may upset people, but you have to admit, he actually portrays communism in very funny, unique and interesting way. it is an original piece of absurdist and ironic comedy that will give you chuckle. especially the great scene with Jean-Pierre Leaud in the phone booth singing to himself while the selfish brats try to take his sports car. if i had one thing to say about anyone picking up this film, it is to enjoy the ride and appreciate its weird sense of humour, but beware and open minded about the ending.
you may not agree with Godard's politics and the ending may upset people, but you have to admit, he actually portrays communism in very funny, unique and interesting way. it is an original piece of absurdist and ironic comedy that will give you chuckle. especially the great scene with Jean-Pierre Leaud in the phone booth singing to himself while the selfish brats try to take his sports car. if i had one thing to say about anyone picking up this film, it is to enjoy the ride and appreciate its weird sense of humour, but beware and open minded about the ending.