This “Weekend” continues Wed and Thursday…
13 December 2011
Jean-Luc Godard’s Weekend continues to play tomorrow and Thursday at the Pacific Cinematheque in Downtown Vancouver.
Although the content is hilarious and a serious critique on civilization, be warned that Godard’s film are incredibly intellectual; this ain’t Hollywood folks!
Weekend in particular was made to make the film experience difficult to simply sit back and get lost in the story. Part of its hilarity (at least to me) was the how Godard constantly interrupts his own film!
But as advertised, the traffic jam is incredible and full of irony and allegory.
Impressively to me, especially given when it was made (1967), Godard goes to great lengths to undermine the burgeoning sexual exploitation of women in film and civilization. It wasn’t obvious to me at first, but the fact that the lead actress was used in sexualized commercials and other films may help understand this aspect of his work. Clearly he failed, but that there was an attempt at all is inspiring to me.
Perhaps the greatest irony of all to me is that Godard tried to use film to undermine film. Sound familiar? Surely, technology will save us from climate change/pollution/tyranny/etc, n’est-ce pas?
If you’re up for an evening with your thinking cap firmly on, check out Godard’s film to end all film Wednesday (Dec 14) at 9:05pm and Thursday (Dec 15) at 9:15pm.
