WEEKEND (1967) screening with KINDRED SPIRIT (short)

Sunday November 9
8:00 PM

KINDRED SPIRIT (short) 2014 / France / French with English subtitles / 14 minutes / Format: High Def Digital
Director: Irina Fontaine Print Source: Irina Fontaine
In this comedic short an unsuspecting cat burglar breaks into an apartment and finds more than just the usual stuff to steal.

WEEKEND (1967)
classic 1967 / France, Italy / French with English subtitles / 105 minutes / Format: 35mm
Director: Jean-Luc Godard Cast: Mireille Darc, Jean Yanne, Jean-Pierre Kalfon Print Source: Janus Films

One of the original founders of the French New Wave, Jean-Luc Godard specialized in shattering the film tradition that had hardened into a staid set of stuffy rules by the 1950s. Weekend is one of Godard’s most inventive and polarizing films. Colorful, innovative, and unpredictable, this is a satire against society, against convention, and against our comfortable reality. The story involves Roland and Corinne, a vapid married couple on a hapless trip to visit in-laws. It’s no secret that they hate each other and everything, but then the world hates them back, as they spend the film embroiled in endless traffic jams, terrorized by hippies, and trekking through a countryside that resembles a postapocalyptic nightmare. Roger Ebert called Weekend “Godard’s best film, and his most inventive. It is almost pure movie.”