Weekend (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray)

This scathing late-sixties satire from Jean-Luc Godard (BREATHLESS) is one of cinema's great anarchic works. Determined to collect an inheritance from a dying relative, a bourgeois couple travel across the French countryside while civilization crashes and burns around them. Featuring a justly famous centerpiece sequence in which the camera tracks along a seemingly endless traffic jam, and rich with historical and literary references, WEEKEND is a surreally funny and disturbing call for revolution, a depiction of society retreating to savagery, and - according to the credits - the end of cinema itself.

Starring: Jean-Pierre L aud, Paul G gauff, Valerie Lagrange, Mireille Darc, Jean Yanne, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Paul Gegauff, Valérie Lagrange, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Paul Gégauff, Helen Scott, Juliette Berto, Jean Eustache, Jean-Claude Guilbert, Juliet Berto, Yves Afonso, Yves Beneyton, Daniel Pommereulle, Yves Alfonso, Blandine Jeanson, Ernest Menzer, Georges Staquet, Anne Wiazemsky, Virginie Vignon, Monsieur Jojot, Isabelle Pons, Laszlo Szabo, J. C. Guilbert, Michel Cournot