WeekEnd

It baffled me the first time - Jean-Luc Godard - 1967
This is really a pretty straightforward film in some ways. We know who we hate, and the corsucating portrait-slashing is carried out in uncharacteristic washed out colours. There is a pretty straight arc to the 'story' (not the most pertinent point, but all the same...), as in 'Pierrot Le Fou', and as far as that goes we know where we are.
The film divided into episodes, of ideas, increasingly politically engaged. The long takes, the pans and so on, cover images rent from another cinema that has always existed, underneath the surface of theo one on all those screens.
To be honest, this isn't my favourite Godard; it it a little one-track, as thoug Godard is uncomfortable with what he's doing, wanting to express his ideas some other way (Fin Du Cinema). The mood is consistent here, unlike Godard's previous work I have seen. Still, humiliates pretty much the rest of the history of cinema, in a like manner to its bourgeoises.