Movie #814 "Le Week-end" was to me a lighter version of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf?" which means in my book very ugly (not in the looks department) people demeaning each other through the whole film . Here's a married couple who has recently become empty nesters who go to one of my favorite places, Paris, to renew their love, and what happens? In all these beautiful places, around all this wonderful food, all they do is argue --- she picks at him, and he whines because she won't touch him any more. Neither person is really likable (maybe he more than she, but just by a little ) so this audience member didn't really care after several fights into the film if they would ever get together. In fact, I was wishing they just separated and would be done with it, and the movie would finally end. As I was watching them insult each other and say nasty things they can never take back, I was thinking that the plot line of the film was maybe an attempt at twisting the plot of "Before Sunrise" with Ethan Hawke and Julie Delphy where it is one night in the lives of two people who fall in love. It is all dialogue between these two, much like this film, but why do we root for those two people and not these? The ones in "Before Sunrise" are likable, they are real, they down deep care about each other and so we care. These two people in this movie are mean and seem to be bipolar in how they handle this supposed love relationship, and after awhile, we who are watching this train wreck don't care. So I hope I have made this critique obvious ---- don't bother with this one. And see a good film like "Before Sunrise."
Le Week-End2013NR I gave it 2 stars out of 5
Returning to Paris long after their honeymoon there, a British couple hopes to rediscover the magical feelings of their early years together. There, they meet an old friend whose perspectives on love and marriage help them recover what was lost.
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