Talk:Weekend (1967 film)

cleanup tag added
This article isn't particularly poorly written, but it is written more like a film review than an encyclopedia particle, complete with the author's interpretations of events and asides. I'm sure Godard would have chafed at such bourgois rules, but c'est la vie. --Mr Wind-Up Bird &#9992; 23:57, 5 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Can you point out the parts that appear to be interpretations? Maybe they can be taken out and replaced with something more objective?

The problem isn't one of a few questionable passages, or I would change it myself. The majority of the article doesn't seem to me to adhere to the wikipedia policies of verifiability and point of view -- it asserts opinions instead of facts, provides unverifiable details, etc, etc.


 * "The viewer cannot help but ask himself, 'Why not make inroads through the farmer's fields and drive there, bypassing whatever is jamming up the road?'"


 * "Whatever the advantages are to allowing aristocracies the pleasure of having wide, wide fields separated by narrow, narrow roads it is lost on the viewer when it becomes clear that modern society has exceeded the bounds that history has accorded it."


 * "Standing on the shore, the leader recites an ode to the Ancient Ocean and delivers it like a prayer, much as the ancient Celts, Greeks or Romans must have worshipped Poseidon or Neptune."

--Mr Wind-Up Bird &#9992; 17:45, 12 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Okay. I'll see if I can fix it up.  I'll have to watch the movie again, though, and my DVD is out on loan right now.  It might be a little while before I get it back...

Trivia?
Ok, so I have no idea how to edit an article, but it did occur to me when I was reading Georges Bataille's Story of the Eye, that the scene in Week End where the wife is telling the husband about her exploits, bears a stiking resemblance to passages in the Story of the Eye : three protagonists, a saucer of milk, eggs.

Someone ought to note that the 'ode to the ocean' in the last third of the film is in fact from the first canto of 'Les Chants de Maldoror' by Le Comte Lautreamont/Issidore Ducasse. In fact, someone ought to start a seperate section on the intertextural references to French literature throughout. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.65.213.237 (talk) 02:46, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Title: Week End or Weekend?
It's common practice in Wikipedia to use the US release title for a film. See Breathless (1960 film), for example. And in the US, Weekend is presented as one word instead of two, as can be seen in its DVD cover.

Should this article thus be retitled Weekend, with a redirect from Week End? --Jeremy Butler 12:02, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

I'm mostly kidding
Whitney Matheson at Pop Candy has mentioned a number of times that she has this film from Netflix and has not returned it. Notable because she mentioned it again [| here] on Jan 18 2008 and admits that she has held onto it since September of 2006. Should this be mentioned on this page? The Netflix article? The Pop Candy/ Whitney articles? I'm mostly kidding as I don't think it deserves mention at all on Wikipedia, but stranger things have been added to some films "References in Popular Culture" sections. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.32.13.98 (talk) 16:12, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Weekendfilm.jpg
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BetacommandBot (talk) 03:15, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Movie Poster
Can the movie image for this article be reverted back to one of the original posters. The one currently used is from a recent u.s. dvd release and I think it would be more pertinent to use an image that's in the films native french and that is much older. For instance http://movieposters.2038.net/p/Weekend.jpg -i —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.99.80.82 (talk) 23:45, 25 May 2010 (UTC)