Godard, Jean-Luc, Afonso, Yves, Beneyton, Yves, Darc, Mireille, Kalfon, Jean-Pierre, Yanne, Jean	...	(Director)
Jean-Luc Godard	...	(Writer)
Mireille Darc	...	Corinne Durand
Jean Yanne	...	Roland Durand
Jean-Pierre Kalfon	...	Le chef du Front de Libération de la Seine et Oise
Georges Staquet	...	Tractor driver
Yves Afonso	...	Tom Thumb
Valérie Lagrange	...	FLSO Leader's moll
Karl Marx	...	Himself (archive footage)
Yves Beneyton	...	Member of FLSO
Helen Scott	...	Woman in Car
Virginie Vignon	...	Marie-Madeleine
Jean-Pierre Léaud	...	Saint-Just/Le jeune minet du 16ème
Blandine Jeanson	...	Emily Bronte/Girl in Farmyard
Paul Gégauff	...	Pianist
Juliet Berto	...	Woman in car crash/F.L.S.O. member
Daniel Pommereulle	...	Joseph Balsamo
Ernest Menzer	...	Cook
Michèle Breton	...	Girl in the woods (uncredited)
Michel Cournot	...	Man From Farmyard (uncredited)
Lex De Bruijn	...	Revolutionary (uncredited)
Omar Diop	...	Mon frère africain (uncredited)
Jean Eustache	...	L'auto-stoppeur (uncredited)
Jean-Claude Guilbert	...	Le clochard (uncredited)
Louis Jojot	...	Monsieur Jojot (uncredited)
Isabelle Pons	...	(uncredited)
László Szabó	...	L'arabe (uncredited)
Anne Wiazemsky	...	Une fille à la ferme (uncredited)
Antoine Duhamel	...	Composer
Raoul Coutard	...	Cinematographer
Agnès Guillemot	...	Editor
Ralph Baum	...	Production Manager
Philippe Senné	...	Production Manager
Claude Miller	...	Assistant Director
René Levert	...	sound
Bill Murray	...	Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Laura Linney	...	Daisy
Samuel West	...	George VI
Olivia Colman	...	Reine Elizabeth
Elizabeth Marvel	...	Missy
Olivia Williams	...	Eleanor Roosevelt
Elizabeth Wilson	...	Mme Roosevelt
Martin McDougall	...	Tommy
Andrew Havill	...	Cameron
Eleanor Bron	...	Tante de Daisy
Nancy Baldwin	...	Mme Astor
Tim Beckmann	...	Assistant du président
Guy Paul	...	Assistant du président
Eben Young	...	Assistant du président
Samantha Dakin	...	Mary la bonne
Jonathan Brewer	...	Ish-ti-opi
Kumiko Konishi	...	Princess Te Ata
Blake Ritson	...	Johnson
James McNeill	...	Photographer
The British Imperial Military Band	...	Les orchestres de cuivres
The Amersham Band	...	Les orchestres de cuivres
Buffy Davis	...	Cuisinière
Morgan Deare	...	Plombier
Tim Ahern	...	Pilote affamé #1
Tommy Campbell	...	Pilote affamé #2
Jeff Mash	...	Pilote affamé #3
Kevin Millington	...	Pilote affamé #4
Nell Mooney	...	Bonne superstitieuse
Robert G. Slade	...	Serveur
Parker Sawyers	...	Thomas
Kiri Bloom	...	Jeune cuisinier
Chris Bowe	...	Homme de ville
Nathanjohn Carter	...	Chauffeur
Sam Creed	...	Serviteur de FDR
Jason Durran	...	Nelson
Erkan Halil	...	Serviteur
Kevin Hudson	...	Reporter
Martin John King	...	Estafette
Henry Monk	...	Soldat (Marine)
Debbie J. Nash	...	Membre du personnel de Hyde Park

Comments: DFR 165

Summary: Jean-Luc Godard and Luis Buñuel enjoyed an ardent misanthropic duel in the '60s and '70s, but who won is anyone's call. Godard's Weekend lays down the trump in a harrowing and darkly funny allegory in which social mores fray along political lines. Played out in a metafilm in which characters question their own reality, a morally bankrupt Parisian couple tries to leave the city on a much-loathed country holiday with the wife's parents. Along the way, endless traffic jams, sudden violence, and vistas of gory car crashes underscore their corrupted values. Their lethal encounter with the in-laws and kidnap by an anarchic band of radical cannibals finds the couple--and presumably "decent" society with them--reverting to a nasty primitivism. The idea is of course that the bored, apathetic heart of the bourgeoisie is never far from acting out its most homicidal fantasies. --Alan E. Rapp