Weekend

Dec 29, 1967

1h 44m

★ 7.0

Overview

A supposedly idyllic weekend trip to the countryside turns into a never-ending nightmare of traffic jams, revolution, cannibalism and murder as French bourgeois society starts to collapse under the weight of its own consumer preoccupations.

Genres

Comedy

Crime

Production Companies

Cinecidi

Comacico

Les Films Copernic

Lira Films

Weekend Trailers

Cast

Corinne Durand

Mireille Darc

Roland Durand

Jean Yanne

Le Chef du Front de Libération de la Seine et Oise

Jean-Pierre Kalfon

Gros Poucet (uncredited)

Yves Afonso

Un Membre du FLSO (uncredited)

Yves Beneyton

Une Activiste du FLSO / Jeune Bourgeoise Accidentée (uncredited)

Juliet Berto

Girl in the Woods (uncredited)

Michèle Breton

Man From Farmyard (uncredited)

Michel Cournot

Revolutionary (uncredited)

Lex De Bruijn

Mon Frère Africain (uncredited)

Omar Diop

L'Auto-Stoppeur (uncredited)

Jean Eustache

Le Clochard (uncredited)

Jean-Claude Guilbert

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