Curzon Artificial Eye: Jean-Luc Godard's Weekend Detailed for Blu-ray (UPDATED)
HomeCurzon Artificial Eye: Jean-Luc Godard's Weekend Detailed for Blu-ray (UPDATED)
Posted June 26, 2018 10:39 AM by Webmaster
British distributors Curzon Artificial Eye have officially announced and detailed their upcoming Blu-ray release of Jean-Luc Godard's film Weekend (1967), starring Mireille Darc, Jean Yanne, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Jean-Claude Guilbert, and Jean-Pierre Léaud. The release will be available for purchase on July 16.
UPDATE: One more archival interview with director Mike Figgis has bend added up to the previously announced special features.
Synopsis: One of the world's most influential filmmakers and a leadign figure of the Nouvelle Vague movement of the 60's, Jean-Luc Godard's works have trnasformed the face of cinema. 'Weekend' remains one of the most legendary, audacious and acclaimed films of his distinguished career. It follows a bickering, scheming, bourgeois couple who leave Paris for the French countryside to claim an inheritance by nefarious means. Almost immediately, they become entangled in a cataclysmic traffic jam, which is just the beginning of a journey fraught with violent and dangerous encounters: rape, murder, pillage and even cannibalism. Famed for its virtuoso cinematography - including a stunning ten-minute tracking shot - Godard's dystopian road movie is a ferocious attack on consumerism
Special Features:
UPDATE: One more archival interview with director Mike Figgis has bend added up to the previously announced special features.
Synopsis: One of the world's most influential filmmakers and a leadign figure of the Nouvelle Vague movement of the 60's, Jean-Luc Godard's works have trnasformed the face of cinema. 'Weekend' remains one of the most legendary, audacious and acclaimed films of his distinguished career. It follows a bickering, scheming, bourgeois couple who leave Paris for the French countryside to claim an inheritance by nefarious means. Almost immediately, they become entangled in a cataclysmic traffic jam, which is just the beginning of a journey fraught with violent and dangerous encounters: rape, murder, pillage and even cannibalism. Famed for its virtuoso cinematography - including a stunning ten-minute tracking shot - Godard's dystopian road movie is a ferocious attack on consumerism
Special Features:
- Interview with director Mike Figgis (Leaving Las Vegas) - 23 min.
- Interview with director Claude Miller (Mortelle randonnée) - 24 min.
- Interview with scenarist Antoine de Baecque - 12 min.
- Interview with director Patrice Leconte (The Hairdresser's Husband) - 34 min.
