Weekend

A film by Jean-Luc Godard, Weekend is a political film commenting on the rich upper class of France.  The film is about a couple, Roland and Corinne, that take a weekend to travel to her parent's to receive an inheritance.  They've been slowly poisoning her father so he would die sooner, but due to a few setbacks (car wrecks, traffic jams, a car jacking, etc) along the way they don't make it there before he dies.  The film is an expression of how horrible this upper class is.  Roland and Corinne end up murdering both of her parents in order to get more money.  In the end they get their comeuppance with Roland being killed (not to mention disemboweled) and Corinne resorting to cannibalism in order to not starve.  I found the film confusing with many hidden messages.  The characters constantly state that they are in a film giving it a kind of reflexive feel.  At one point they burn a girl because she is an "imaginary" character.  It is an interesting film in an artistic way.  I wouldn't recommend it to the normal class of film viewers.