Weekend

5.00
    Weekend
    2011

    Synopsis

    After a drunken house party with his straight mates, Russell heads out to a gay club. Just before closing time he picks up Glen but what's expected to be just a one-night stand becomes something else, something special.

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    Cast

    • Tom CullenRussell
    • Chris NewGlen
    • Jonathan RaceJamie
    • Laura FreemanJill
    • Loreto MurrayCathy
    • Jonathan WrightJohnny
    • Sarah ChurmHelen
    • Vauxhall JermaineDamien
    • Joe DohertyJustin
    • Kieran HardcastleSam

    Recommendations

    • 100

      The A.V. Club

      Bittersweet, achingly authentic, and so intimate it almost feels invasive.
    • 91

      IndieWire

      Weekend builds into a powerful encapsulation of an identity crisis over the course of three passionate days.
    • 91

      Entertainment Weekly

      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.
    • 90

      The New York Times

      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

      New York Magazine (Vulture)

      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.
    • 80

      Village Voice

      Naturalistic without being ineloquent, heartfelt yet unsentimental, Weekend is the rarest of birds: a movie romance that rings true.
    • 75

      New York Post

      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.

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