A supposedly idyllic weekend trip to the countryside turns into a never-ending nightmare of traffic jams, revolution, cannibalism and murder as French bourgeois society starts to collapse under the weight of its own consumer preoccupations.
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Writers: Jean-Luc Godard, Julio Cortázar
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Mireille Darc
Corinne Durand
Jean Yanne
Roland Durand
Jean-Pierre Kalfon
Le Chef du Front de Libération de la Seine et Oise
Yves Afonso
Gros Poucet (uncredited)
Yves Beneyton
Un Membre du FLSO (uncredited)
Juliet Berto
Une Activiste du FLSO / Jeune Bourgeoise Accidentée (uncredited)
Michèle Breton
Girl in the Woods (uncredited)
As the 1960s went on Jean-Luc Godard kept up the kind of brash, zany, experimental style with which he made his name and became a cornerstone of the French New Wave, but his work increasingly showed a political consciousness sparked by the explosion of the consumer society in tha…
