One of my favorites! I recently got to see it on a big screen for the first time and it was even better than I remembered. Andrew Haigh has such a distinct style.
Weekend
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- United Kingdom
- 2011
- · 96m
Director
Andrew Haigh
Cast
Tom Cullen,
Chris New,
Jonathan Race,
Laura Freeman,
Loreto Murray,
Kieran Hardcastle
Genre
Drama,
Romance
On a lonely Friday night, Russell goes to a gay club hoping to find a one night stand. There, he meets Glen and takes him home, but what was supposed to be a simple one-time affair quickly turns into something more. Over the course of a weekend, Russell and Glen fall deeply in love.
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100
The A.V. Club
Bittersweet, achingly authentic, and so intimate it almost feels invasive.
91
Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum
British filmmaker Andrew Haigh's background in editing (from Gladiator to Mister Lonely) is evident in the casual beauty of moments that only appear "found," giving Weekend an engrossing documentary feel.
91
IndieWire by Eric Kohn
Weekend builds into a powerful encapsulation of an identity crisis over the course of three passionate days.
90
The New York Times by A.O. Scott
There is also a need for stories that address the complex entanglements of love and sex honestly, without sentiment or cynicism and with the appropriate mixture of humor, sympathy and erotic heat. Weekend, Andrew Haigh's astonishingly self-assured, unassumingly profound second feature, is just such a film.
88
Slant Magazine
A ticking stopwatch hangs over Weekend that amplifies the intensity of every conversation, every fight, every drink, every copulation. In other words, it's a device.
80
Village Voice
Naturalistic without being ineloquent, heartfelt yet unsentimental, Weekend is the rarest of birds: a movie romance that rings true.
80
New York Magazine (Vulture) by David Edelstein
I hate to damage so fragile a work with overpraise, but, gay or straight, if you don't see yourself in this movie, you need to get a life.
75
New York Post by V.A. Musetto
Weekend is a gay riff on "Before Sunrise" (1995), in which a man (Ethan Hawke) and woman (Julie Delpy) meet and fall in love in one night, before going their separate ways in the morning for what could be forever.
60
Time Out by Keith Uhlich
Weekend settles into an intentionally minor-key groove, caught somewhere between bracingly direct honesty and cringingly mumbly pretense.
60
Variety by Joe Leydon
Earnest and understated, Weekend has the intimate look and feel of a two-character stage play that has been opened up -- but only slightly, with minimal addition of supporting players -- for a mostly faithful filmization.
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