Le Week-End

2014 • 93 minutes

About this movie

Academy Award winner Jim Broadbent (Iris) and Lindsay Duncan (About Time) give exquisite performances as Nick and Meg, a long-married British couple revisiting Paris for the first time since their honeymoon in an attempt to rekindle their relationship. During a two-day escapade, wistful Nick and demanding Meg careen from harmony to strife to resignation and back as they take stock of a lifetime of tenderness and regret. A surprise invitation from Nick's old friend Morgan (Jeff Goldblum), a hilariously boorish academic with a newly published book and fancy Parisian digs, soon leads them to an unexpectedly hopeful vision of what their love and marriage might still become.

Directed by Roger Michell (Notting Hill) and written by longtime collaborator Hanif Kureishi (Venus, My Beautiful Launderette), this magically buoyant, bittersweet film is at once brutally honest, sharply comedic, and undeniably romantic.

Ratings and reviews

Jim Broadbent and Lindsay Duncan play a married couple who head to Paris for a vacation that will hopefully transform it, for good or for ill. Critics dug this poignant but somewhat funny portrait of a couple hashing it out over croissants. Fans of Linklater's "Before" trilogy will want to take a look.