Talk:Week End

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Contents 1 Rated R? 2 cleanup tag added 3 Trivia? 4 Title: Week End or Weekend? 5 I'm mostly kidding 6 Fair use rationale for Image:Weekendfilm.jpg

[edit] Rated R?

The first 12 minutes to the film contain a woman's silhouette framed against the morning light of a window. She doesn't move around much, and no matter where the camera is positioned, the silhouettes remain framed against the light of the window. A man asks brief questions of the woman, interrupting (or perhaps prompting) her otherwise passionless, monotonous monolog. It is this dialog that makes the movie worthy an R rating, if not a near X rating. Although there isn't a single visible depiction of sexual activity in the movie, there is, nevertheless, in those first 12 minutes a graphic verbal description of a past infidelity on the wife's part.

This is not the first time that the director Jean-Luc Godard has attempted to tease the audience without actually showing them anything to look at. In his earlier big-budget art film, Contempt, the first 10 minutes to the movie are devoted to a man describing his wife's physical features as the camera panned up and down small parts or tracts of her legs, stomach, and arms, without ever drawing back far enough to let the audience see more than a mere clue of what they were really being shown: the description was intimate (and potentially R rated, if the camera veered off course a bit) even though the actual depiction was PG.

[edit] 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 ✈ 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 ✈ 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...

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Weekendfilm.jpg

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BetacommandBot (talk) 03:15, 12 February 2008 (UTC)