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See all- Film Club: Weekend (Jean-Luc Godard)Two Chairmen, London
Meetings are normally held every third Monday of the month at the Two Chairmen, 39 Dartmouth Street, SW1H 9BP, at 7 pm. After the film there is a brief discussion about the issues raised.
This one is being held on the third TUESDAY of the month because Timea (the manager of the Two Chairmen) has requested us to change it, because she has a booking on that date).
## Plot[edit]
Roland and Corinne Durand are a bourgeois couple. Each has a secret lover and conspires to murder the other. They drive to Corinne's parents' home in the country to secure her inheritance from her dying father, resolving to resort to murder if necessary. The trip becomes a chaotic journey through a French countryside populated by bizarre characters and punctuated by violent car accidents. After their own Facel-Vega is destroyed in a collision, they wander through a series of vignettes involving class struggle and figures from literature and history, such as Louis Antoine de Saint-Just and Emily Brontë.
In a metafictional touch, some scenes show the characters in the film being self-aware such as a driver asking Roland after being flagged down, "Are you in a film or reality?", the film's real actors from the Italian co-production being mentioned during Corinne and Roland's search for a car to Oinville (to which they never specify further as to which Oinville they are referring to), and various intertitles which are a defining feature to Godard's films.
When Corinne and Roland eventually arrive at her parents' place, they discover that her father has died and her mother refuses to give them a share of the spoils. They kill her and hit the road again, only to fall into the hands of a group of hippie revolutionaries (calling themselves the Seine and Oise Liberation Front) that support themselves through theft and cannibalism. Killed during an escape attempt, Roland is chopped up and cooked.