France | 1967 | col | 105 mins | dir. Jean-Luc Godard, with Mireille Darc, Jean Yanne
A bickering, scheming bourgeois couple leave Paris for the French countryside to claim an inheritance by nefarious means. Almost immediately, they become entangled in a cataclysmic traffic jam, which is just the beginning of a journey fraught with violent and dangerous encounters: rape, murder, pillage and even cannibalism. Famed for its virtuoso cinematography - including a stunning ten minute tracking shot - Godard's dystopian road movie is a ferocious attack on consumerism.
