Weekend 1967 Jean Luc Godard, MUSICAL ACTION Mozart’s Piano Sonata No. 18 in D Major

Halfway through Weekend, Jean Luc Godard’s best known and least watched film, we are treated to a performance of Mozart’s Piano Sonata No. 18 in D Major. A (Bechstein) grand piano is set up in the courtyard of a farm in rural France. As the pianist, no romantic Liszt or Chopin, but an ordinary looking man in a sweater smoking a cigar, plays the sonata, which has the sublime grandeur of a baroque cathedral, the camera pans 360 degrees, twice. We notice the shabby looking peasants, the run down farmhouse, the agricultural equipment scattered about as though it were in a junkyard, the bored petty bourgeoisie couple. How different the visuals are from what we’re hearing.
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MUSICAL ACTION A grand piano is set up in a barnyard, and the pianist begins to play a recital of Mozart's Sonata 18. In a startling shot, Godard places his camera in the center of the barnyard and moves it through three complete 360-degree revolutions. We see the entire barnyard pianist, listeners, passersby, the camera crew three times in sequence.
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130. WEEKEND (1967) | 366 Weird Movies
The first is a scene set in a rural courtyard where a man plays a Mozart sonata, pausing to pontificate about the maestro and his music. The camera swirls around in a circle to show villagers walking about as Corrine and Roland rest and smoke. The scene’s not bad, but it doesn’t fit into Weekend thematically, and it’s out of character for Corrine and Roland to stand by calmly while someone plays beautiful music without spitting out obscenities and demanding someone give them a ride.
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The Image: I think the image of the three farmers' wives in this clip purposefully rehearses a photograph by Lucien Hervé - The Three Women, 1951.
Anyway - such a wonderful 360 panoramic sequence!
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