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This mind boggling film
stacks analogy upon analogy and allegory upon allegory with
hallucinatory fervor in an episodic odyssey of an
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Made in:
1967 |
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Directed by:
Jean-Luc Godard |
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unpleasant
upper-class Parisian pair out for a weekend trip to visit
the wife's mother. Opening with a psychiatric-session
monologue by the delicate Corinne (Mireille Darc), clad only
in panties and perched first on a desk, then on a
refrigerator as she hesitantly describes a sexual encounter
involving an egg and an orifice, the movie quickly moves to
the carnage of the roadways during a sunny weekend. A
bumper-to-bumper carnival of cars ensues, honking,
careening, crashing, overturning, and burning along with
their grotesque occupants as Corinne and Roland (Jean Yanne)
proceed on their trip. Along the way social values regarding
sex, consumerism, and family are explored in myriad surreal
ways. The final result can be viewed as a darkly funny
vision of Hell that culminates in one possible brave new
world. One of the essential films of the 1960s.