The never ending “Weekend” from Hell [MOVIE REVIEW]
Jean Yanne (left) in a scene from Jean-Luc Godard's Weekend. PHOTO: JANUS FILMS A newly restored and pristine print of the Jean-Luc Godard classic from 1968, “Weekend,” opens at the Nuart Theatre for one week beginning Friday, November 25. Godard, originally a writer for the iconic film criticism journal Cahiers du Cinema and a co-founder of the “New Wave” (along with fellow writers Claude Chabrol, François Truffaut, and others), is most famous for his feature film debut in 1959, “Breathless” starring Jean Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg. By 1968 Godard had continued, some would say finished, the job he began with “Pierrot le Fou” (also starring Belmondo and also recently rereleased) where he deconstructed story as evidenced by his famous quote: “A story should have a beginning, middle, and an end… but not necessarily in that order.” “Weekend” has a beginning, middle and an end, it’s just that each piece belongs to different films. An anarchist and/or a Marxist, or maybe he’s a Maoist, Godard has created performance art on film, veering madly (one could say maddeningly) from one idea to another. No one on the film is credited, not the actors, writers, cinematographer or director (a…
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