Week-End

Rating: 40%


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Language:

Length:

89 minutes

Review Format:

DVD

Year:

2013

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Predominant Genre:

Comedy

Director:

Outstanding Performances:

Premiss:

Couple return to the scene of their honeymoon; attempting to rejuvenate their marriage.

Themes:

Alienation

Christianity

Communism

Curative

Destiny

Emotional repression

Erotophobia

Gynophobia

Identity

Loneliness

Loyalty

Materialism

Narcissism

Nostalgia

Personal

Political

Political Correctness

Sadomasochism

Schizophrenia

Sexism

Sexual Repression

Social class

Solipsism

Stereotyping

White culture

White privilege

Similar to:

Venus

Caucasians Aging Badly

Summary: Whites leading lives of quiet desperation.

Amusing-but-empty reflection on White superficiality and resultant depression that quickly falls into the same malaise as its central characters. White Whine - even in Paris - tastes more like vinegar than anything else; leading to nothing more than boredom, dissatisfaction & anger - both in the characters on-screen and the audience.

Why such people ever got married, in the first place, is never addressed - apart from the implication that the social snobbery of the characters would lead them, inevitably, to marrying only those exactly like themselves; in other words, an affectively arranged-marriage. The marriage presented here is based more on seeking emotional sanctuary and personal safety than on being physically-adventurous and psychologically-fulfilled.

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White lives usually end in failure since they believe inherent contradictions can be reconciled in political talk - as opposed to action. Believing that the Personal is Political can only lead to the death of sensuality inevitable when Politics enters the bedroom; while fear of living fully can only result in the dread of death displayed here. A curious mix of being frightened to be alone and, yet, being unable to find someone to share one’s life with that one can put-up-with till the end.

The writer’s trademark gynophobia, misogyny & sex-obsession are well in evidence as he is quite unable to show scenes from a marriage in anything other than sexual terms. Do so many Whites really not sow their wild oats when young - and then spend their middle and declining years regretting it - all to avoid the regret of actually doing something they might regret?

The characterization is as two-dimensional as it is possible to be; making this a waste of fine actors.

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