Topped with bittersweet humor but possessing surprisingly
thorny depths, Le Week-End offers a sophisticated, well-acted
portrait of late-life struggles and long-term marriage. In Mr. Michell's magically
buoyant and bittersweet film, Jim Broadbent and Lindsay Duncan play a long-married
couple who revisit Paris for a long weekend for the first time since their honeymoon,
in hopes of rekindling their relationship-or, perhaps, to bring it to an end.
Diffident, wistful Nick (Broadbent) and demanding, take-charge Meg (Duncan) careen
from harmony to disharmony to resignation and back again as they take stock and
grapple with love, loss, regret and, disappointment, in their own very English
way. When Meg and Nick run into their insufferably successful old friend Morgan,
an American academic superstar with a fancy Parisian address played with pure
delight by Jeff Goldblum, their squabbles rise to a register that's both emotionally
rich and very funny.
Coming, May 9. 10 & 11 – Hudson
Film Festival
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