Weekend
Jean-Luc Godard, 1967, 105 min

This scathing late-sixties satire is one of cinema’s great anarchic works. Determined to collect an inheritance from a dying relative, a bourgeois couple travel across the French countryside while civilization crashes and burns around them. Featuring a justly famous sequence in which the camera tracks along a seemingly endless traffic jam, and rich with historical and literary references, Weekend is a surreally funny and disturbing call for revolution, a depiction of society reverting to savagery, and – according to the credits – the end of cinema itself.

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Showing as part of our year long tribute: Au Contraire: Jean-Luc Godard