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.
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Character
Prestige, relentless, bleak and formally daring.
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
- warmbleak
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
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Cast
- Mireille DarcCorinne Durand
- Jean YanneRoland Durand
- Jean-Pierre KalfonLe Chef du Front de Libération de la Seine et Oise
- Yves AfonsoGros Poucet (uncredited)
- Yves BeneytonUn Membre du FLSO (uncredited)
- Juliet BertoUne Activiste du FLSO / Jeune Bourgeoise Accidentée (uncredited)
- Michèle BretonGirl in the Woods (uncredited)
- Michel CournotMan From Farmyard (uncredited)
- Lex De BruijnRevolutionary (uncredited)
- Omar DiopMon Frère Africain (uncredited)
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- Jean-Luc GodardDirector
- Jean-Luc GodardWriter
- Raoul CoutardDirector of Photography
- Antoine DuhamelOriginal Music Composer
- Agnès GuillemotEditor
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