Le Week-End (2013)
Directed by Roger Michell
Nick and Meg Burrows return to Paris, the city where they honeymooned, to celebrate their 30th wedding anniversary and rediscover some romance in their long-lived marriage. The film follows the couple as long-established tensions in their marriage break out in humorous and often painful ways.
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What critics compared Le Week-End to
Le Week-End may seem a light divertissement compared to The Mother (03, about an elderly woman rediscovering sex with a youngish stud—played by Daniel Craig!) and Venus (06, in which an old man, Peter O'Toole, is fixated on a teenager).
Director Roger Michell (“Notting Hill,” “Hyde Park on Hudson”) has a lovely touch with character-driven pieces, and this is his fourth collaboration with screenwriter Hanif Kureishi, who also wrote “Venus,” “The Mother” and “The Buddha of Suburbia.”
Having previously collaborated on The Mother and Venus (the former something of an overlooked gem), writer Hanif Kureishi and director Roger Michell reunite for this tale of a long-married couple attempting to get away from it all in Paris, but instead finding the broiling tensions in their relationship coming to an unexpected head.
Director Roger Michell and writer Hanif Kureishi’s fourth collaboration, “Le Week-end” continues their exploration of the desires of the olds following “The Mother” and “Venus.”
Written by the English playwright and novelist Hanif Kureishi (“My Son the Fanatic”) and directed by Roger Michell (the two previously collaborated on “The Mother” and “Venus”), “Le Week-End” is a brutal portrait of marriage and a love song to the City of Light.
These unhappy one-liners come courtesy of novelist Hanif Kureishi, reuniting with the director, Roger Michell, who tackled two very different Kureishi scripts: “The Mother” and “Venus.”
Mike's behavior is sending Lesley into the arms of costar Laura (Andrea Riseborough, "Oblivion"), Riggan's lover, and Broadway's biggest critic (Lindsay Duncan, "Le Week-end") is gunning for him.