Weekend
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. A supposedly-idyllic weekend trip to the countryside turns i…
Weekend
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. A supposedly-idyllic weekend trip to the countryside turns into an endless nightmare of traffic jams, revolution, cannibalism, and murder as French bourgeois society starts to collapse under the weight of its own consumer preoccupations. —Michael Brooke <michael@everyman.demon.co.uk> It's Saturday, and Roland and Corinne Durand are driving from the city to Oinville for the weekend to visit her dying father. They have systematically been poisoning him over several years, to kill him so they can inherit his estate. They believe he will die this weekend and they need to be there to ensure that her mother has not altered the will in her favor. Neither knows that the other is having an affair, and Corinne doesn't know that Roland plans to kill her so he can share the money with his mistress. The happenings over the course of their journey add up to a commentary on their bourgeois values. —Huggo An unlucky married couple travel to the countryside, but the behavior of everyone they encounter turns their journey into a nightmare full of accidents, terrorism, and civil war. —Stephan Eichenberg <eichenbe@fak-cbg.tu-muenchen.de>
Weekend
Adventure,Comedy,Drama
Film Details
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. A supposedly-idyllic weekend trip to the countryside turns into an endless nightmare of traffic jams, revolution, cannibalism, and murder as French bourgeois society starts to collapse under the weight of its own consumer preoccupations. —Michael Brooke <michael@everyman.demon.co.uk> It's Saturday, and Roland and Corinne Durand are driving from the city to Oinville for the weekend to visit her dying father.
They have systematically been poisoning him over several years, to kill him so they can inherit his estate. They believe he will die this weekend and they need to be there to ensure that her mother has not altered the will in her favor. Neither knows that the other is having an affair, and Corinne doesn't know that Roland plans to kill her so he can share the money with his mistress.
The happenings over the course of their journey add up to a commentary on their bourgeois values. —Huggo An unlucky married couple travel to the countryside, but the behavior of everyone they encounter turns their journey into a nightmare full of accidents, terrorism, and civil war. —Stephan Eichenberg <eichenbe@fak-cbg.tu-muenchen.de>.