Weekend
- Director: Andrew Haigh
- Writer: Andrew Haigh
- Producer: Suzanne Alizart; Rachel Dargavel
CGiii Comment
Dull, lifeless...mundane - that's how the gay life is portrayed in this updated take on the 60s kitchen-sink drama. Refreshing and dour.
Most, if not all, have experienced the finding of the 'One' - that great love...on the very last night of their uneventful holiday...Weekend plays on this...here, there is no holiday...just uneventful lives and crossing paths.
Expect no fireworks...no grand guignol climax...it's just a quietly played moment in an uneventful life when eyes sparkle and hearts beat faster...briefly.
You will walk away from this thinking...either...why did I bother?!?
Or, that was uncomfortably realistic...
Or, that was/is the story of my life.
This is Haigh's second outing and it is a marked improvement on the diabolical Greek Pete (2009)...onwards and upwards.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
On a Friday night after a drunken house party with his straight mates, Russell heads out to a gay club, alone and on the pull. Just before closing time he picks up Glen but what's expected to be just a one-night stand becomes something else, something special. That weekend, in bars and in bedrooms, getting drunk and taking drugs, telling stories and having sex, the two men get to know each other. It is a brief encounter that will resonate throughout their lives. Weekend is both an honest and unapologetic love story between two guys and a film about the universal struggle for an authentic life in all its forms. It is about the search for identity and the importance of making a passionate commitment to your life.
Cast & Characters
Tom Cullen as Russell;
Chris New as Glen