Weekend

A 1967 piece of deliberately provocative cinema from Jean-Luc Godard.
This really a very difficult film to get our heads around. It deliberately, and quite explictly tells us, it wants to do away with narrative and other particular strictures. The narrative flies in different directions, it has angry, agressive scenes which don't fit together. It speaks to us, it ignores us, it has non-sequiters with rarely going into surrealism.
There are some striking individual scenes, the long long shot of the car jam is exciting, is interesting. It is deliberately provocative of the audience.
In a similar vein is the idea that all the characters are trying to kill each other. The way they are otherwise portrayed normally is meant surely to shine back on the audience.
Frankly, we do not quite get Godard yet. We understand and appreciate how he is trying to be provocative, breaking down the montage and the nature of cinema when it tries to portray 'excitement' (the scene in the sillouhetted room, discussing the sexual encounter). We can struggle though to even get much of a thematic link, even one meant to annoy us. Would this be better on paper? One may need a sheet to follow it, but not necessarilly. More time, we think.