Week End (1967)

Posted : 1 year ago at Nov 6 10:34

I am thankful that I didn’t part with any of my own money in order to watch this film. I went into it with mildly high hopes due to its billing as an ‘apocalyptic road movie’. The back of the DVD case promises ‘cataclysmic traffic jams’, ‘rape, murder, pillage and even cannibalism’ – so why was it such a terrible viewing experience? The films starts with a fairly humorous scene of a man being ‘brutally’ beaten over an incident of road rage. From the scene I assume that the film is going to be filled with this sort of black humour, and to its credit, it is. But just when you thought it was safe to laugh – DON’T! As we are constantly reminded not to by overbearing synth-strings whenever something profoundly disturbing happens. Whenever something isn’t funny (i.e ...Read more

Rating : 1/10