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Weekend (1967) (1993x12)

Data di messa in onda: Lug 19, 1993

Weekend was written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard in 1967. Godard, you may recall, was one of the French New Wave’s enfants terribles. Starting his career as a critic for Cahiers du Cinéma, he directed his first and most intelligible feature, Breathless, in 1959. In general, intellgibility is not what Godard’s cinema is all about. Breathless was a relatively straight-ahead thriller about a gangster and his moll. Alphaville, which you may recall seeing on Moviedrome many moons ago, is an indescribable science-fiction film in which lightbulbs and domestic objects take on the same sinister high-tech mystery as the spaceship interiors in the Alien films or the monolith in 2001. His films (they cannot be called ‘movies’) are filled with alienation devices, narrative inconsistencies, loose ends, long monologues in which dustmen talk to the camera about Marxism. His films are usually quite cheaply made, partially because - according to a possibly apocryphal story - it’s hard to raise more t