Weekend (2011)
Directed by Andrew Haigh
After a drunken house party with his straight mates, Russell heads out to a gay club. Just before closing time he picks up Glen but what's expected to be just a one-night stand becomes something else, something special.
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What critics compared Weekend to
But one of the beautiful things about “Weekend” – and here, it echoes the Ethan Hawke/Julie Delpy “Before Sunrise” and “Before Sunset” – is that it spends so much time with its characters that their unexpected connection seems to be springing to life before our eyes.
Weekend is a closer match emotionally to Richard Linklater's Before Sunrise and its sequel, Before Sunset.
We've seen this love story before; "Before Sunrise," with Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, and "Certified Copy," with Juliette Binoche, come to mind.
And, not unlike Richard Linklater's Before Sunrise and Before Sunset , a ticking stopwatch hangs over Weekend that amplifies the intensity of every conversation, every fight, every drink, every copulation.
At times reminiscent of Richard Linklater’s talky two-handers Before Sunrise (1995) and Before Sunset (2004), Haigh’s film is at once more credible and more intimate.
They want him to be happy and are encouraging so it is not like “Weekend” (2011) and “All of Us Strangers” (2023) where his loved ones do not consider his romantic needs.
He honed his teeth as an assistant editor working on a suite of Ridley Scott films – Gladiator, Black Hawk Down, Kingdom Of Heaven.