Godard, the name that wrote, talked, read, and criticized the most blended with the connotation of anarchism and rebel views. This is the simplest way of representing the veteran filmmaker. The man who created a new path in the french film world. We are going to talk about his 1967 product, Weekend. I'm not able to answer if you ask what is the peculiarity of this film even though it got released after 55 years. I think this film will be examined and discussed in the future for sure because of the content that the film delivers. We can't attribute this film to a single film because it points out a lot of things that a single film can hold. Like Godard's ideology, the movie stands out in the characterization of anarchist concepts. Godard dilutes the visuals of the man turning into an animal, the man standing as an apolitical creature, and the struggle of man's existential crisis. We can't find good in any of the characters. All characters are selfish. That's why the daughter kills her own mother, and the wife and husband are waiting for a moment to kill each other. The film failed to convey the total idea for me even on the 3rd watch. I feel something lacks in the entirety of the movie. More than the subject I wondered about the film's way of depiction. I'm repeating what others talking and that is the 10-minute-long tracking shot of the traffic jam. A lot of ideas are conveyed through that single shot. The director failed to keep that momentum throughout the movie. The 360-degree shot of the pianist scene is also mesmerizing. The sexual description at the beginning of the movie resembles Bergman's Persona and that attempt from Godard is not a good one. Throughout the movie, Godard tried to tell many things but all those things blend into a single idea and that is the inhumanness in humans. When that politics relies upon bourgeois politics then the film got in touch with communist interpretations. History also says that Godard became a Marxist-Leninist even after this movie. The man who takes films politically rather than taking political films doesn't end up with the exploration of this movie even today after the demise.
Review of Weekend
