01 Jan 1985
From One Friday to the Next
Friday is the day that everyone goes away for the weekend. A bank clerk spends his weekend off a small island with his boat, but the weekend does not run its usual course.
Weekend
A supposedly idyllic weekend trip to the countryside turns into a never-ending nightmare of traffic jams, revolution, cannibalism and murder as French bourgeois society starts to collapse under the weight of its own consumer preoccupations.
Top Billed Cast
Mireille Darc Corinne Durand
Jean Yanne Roland Durand
Jean-Pierre Kalfon Le Chef du Front de Libération de la Seine et Oise
Yves Afonso Gros Poucet (uncredited)
Yves Beneyton Un Membre du FLSO (uncredited)
Juliet Berto Une Activiste du FLSO / Jeune Bourgeoise Accidentée (uncredited)
Michèle Breton Girl in the Woods (uncredited)
Lex De Bruijn Revolutionary (uncredited)
Omar Diop Mon Frère Africain (uncredited)
Jean-Claude Guilbert Le Clochard (uncredited)
Blandine Jeanson Emily Bronte (uncredited)
Louis Jojot Monsieur Jojot (uncredited)
Valérie Lagrange La Femme du Chef du FLSO (uncredited)
Jean-Pierre Léaud Saint-Just / Le Jeune Minet du 16ème (uncredited)
Ernest Menzer Ernest - le Cuisinier / Le Boucher du FLSO (uncredited)
Daniel Pommereulle Joseph Balsamo (uncredited)
Helen Scott Woman in Car (uncredited)
Georges Staquet Le Conducteur du Tracteur (uncredited)
László Szabó L'Arabe (uncredited)
Virginie Vignon Marie-Madeleine (uncredited)
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