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Weekend

1967 · Directed by Jean-Luc Godard · France

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France · 1967

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When we started pre-production, there were certain films we screened for the crew. For the car sequence, we showed Godard’s Weekend. Not for the realism, but to show how a single shot can sustain tension and character interaction over a long period.

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