
Meg, a teacher, and husband Nick, a philosophy lecturer who may just be about to get the push on the eve of retirement, spend a week-end in Paris to celebrate their thirtieth anniversary. He is staid, annoying his foul-mouthed wife who wants to turn the holiday into a series of exciting new experiences, booking into a hotel that stretches their budgets and running off from a restaurant without paying. She is also averse to his touching her and what was meant to be a belated s... (Full plot summary below)
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Meg, a teacher, and husband Nick, a philosophy lecturer who may just be about to get the push on the eve of retirement, spend a week-end in Paris to celebrate their thirtieth anniversary. He is staid, annoying his foul-mouthed wife who wants to turn the holiday into a series of exciting new experiences, booking into a hotel that stretches their budgets and running off from a restaurant without paying. She is also averse to his touching her and what was meant to be a belated second honeymoon is a depressing affair, full of arguments - including one about the son who has recently left home to live in squalor and whom Meg does not want to return. By chance they meet an old university friend of Nick, Morgan, an American high-flyer who invites them to a party where Meg can still turn men's heads and Nick has a conversation with Morgan's young son, leading him to believe that he is not as badly off as he had presumed. Ultimately there appears to be hope for the marriage.
Leave your thoughts about Le Week-End.
| Cleveland Plain DealerClint O'ConnorSuch a pleasure to hang with Lindsay Duncan and Jim Broadbent (even when bickering and lamenting). |
| Financial TimesNigel AndrewsThe whole movie, beautifully judged, keeps surprising us. |
| Daily Telegraph (UK)Jenny McCartneyThis is a beautifully executed, fearlessly truthful and droll film on the emotional politics of reinvention. |
| New York PostLou LumenickJim Broadbent and Lindsay Duncan are superb as the couple, who use the occasion to drop bombs on each other. |
| RogerEbert.comSusan WloszczynaWhen Michell is on his game, as he definitely is with Le Week-End, he unearths small, invaluable and even profound truths about the human condition that are often as inspiring as they are devastating. |
| Television Without PityEthan AlterBroadbent attacks the part with gusto, though, allowing the audience to understand Nick without forcing them to necessarily find him sympathetic. |
| Minneapolis Star TribuneColin Covert"Le Week-End" is a ruefully funny look at a long-term marriage. |
| Toronto StarBruce DeMaraSad, sweet, dark, funny and possibly even redemptive. |
| Orange County RegisterMichael SragowEven the redoubtable Broadbent succumbs to unchecked pathos and self-loathing. Only Duncan's gorgeous suppleness and alertness keep Meg from seeming cruel and overly acidic. |
| Washington PostAnn HornadayIn the capable hands of these fine filmmakers and actors, even its most bitter observations about life and aging are nearly always reliably balanced by moments of warmth, understanding and out-and-out screwball humor. |