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Weekend is a 2011 British romantic drama film directed by Andrew Haigh and starring Tom Cullen and Chris New as two men who meet and begin a sexual relationship the weekend before one of them plans to leave the country.
Weekend (French: Week-end) is a 1967 postmodern black comedy film written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard, based on Julio Cortázar's short story "La autopista del Sur". It stars mainstream French TV stars Mireille Darc and Jean Yanne .
A gay man's (Tom Cullen) weekend-long encounter with an artist (Chris New) changes his life in unexpected ways.
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- Tom Cullen
- Andrew Haigh
- Drama, Romance, LGBTQ+
Sep 22, 2011 · NYT Critic’s Pick. Directed by Andrew Haigh. Drama, Romance. Not Rated. 1h 37m. By A.O. Scott. Sept. 22, 2011. The collapse of sexual taboos has caused some trouble for love, or at least for ...
- Andrew Haigh
- 2 min
Sep 28, 2011 · Russell ( Tom Cullen) is a lifeguard for a swimming pool in Nottingham. This is a job on the way to other things. He's gay, and his friends, who are mostly straight, understand that in a general way. He goes to a straight party, relates well and later goes cruising in a gay bar.
1967. Not Rated. 1h 45m. IMDb RATING. 6.9 /10. 16K. YOUR RATING. Rate. Adventure Comedy Drama. A surreal tale of a married couple going on a road trip to visit the wife's parents with the intention of killing them for the inheritance. Director. Jean-Luc Godard. Writers. Julio Cortázar. Jean-Luc Godard. Stars. Mireille Darc. Jean Yanne.
"Weekend" is about violence, hatred, the end of ideology and the approaching cataclysm that will destroy civilization. It is also about the problem of how to make a movie about this. Movies about The Bomb are almost never effective; the subject is too large. So Godard abandons any attempt to show us "real" war or destruction.
