Where They Went

Week End (1967)

Directed by Jean-Luc Godard

A scheming Parisian couple drive into the countryside to secure an inheritance from her parents in Oinville, and the weekend trip collapses into traffic carnage, wrecks and revolutionary cannibals.

  • Travel shown
  • On foot, bike, skis or swimming
  • Not shown on screen
  • Fictional place
  1. 1The Durands' apartment
    Paris, France
    ≈ 00:00:00
    Inferred

    Corinne and Roland each plot the other's death before setting off for the weekend.

  2. 2Endless traffic jam
    Countryside west of Paris (former Seine-et-Oise)
    ≈ 00:15:00
    Inferred

    They inch past a kilometres-long jam of wrecks and bickering drivers.

  3. 3Wrecked Facel-Vega and the road on foot
    Countryside west of Paris (former Seine-et-Oise)
    ≈ 00:30:00
    Inferred
  4. 4Corinne's parents' house
    Oinville-sur-Montcient, France
    ≈ 01:02:00
    Stated on screen
  5. 5Seine-et-Oise Liberation Front camp (fictional)
    ≈ 01:22:00
    Stated on screenFictional

The journey in numbers

Distance travelled
49 km
Places
4
Countries
1
Stops
5
  • Car: 31 km
  • Not shown: 18 km

Distances are measured in a straight line between stops, so real road distances are longer.

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