Weekend written by Julio Cortazar and Jean Luc Godard, and directed by the latter is one of The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made, although it would not make my Top 10,000 list, if I were to create one: it is bizarre, clearly not my cup of tea and I will try to put down a few lines explaining why, which would not matter, nevertheless, I am even inviting to check a few of my thousands of notes on films from the aforementioned NYT 1,000 and other pages, there are too many reviews on magnum opera from The Greatest Books of All Time and other sites on this blog and YouTube channel of mine here https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html let me know if you enjoyed the trip

 

Weekend written by Julio Cortazar and Jean Luc Godard, and directed by the latter is one of The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made, although it would not make my Top 10,000 list, if I were to create one: it is bizarre, clearly not my cup of tea and I will try to put down a few lines explaining why, which would not matter, nevertheless, I am even inviting to check a few of my thousands of notes on films from the aforementioned NYT 1,000 and other pages, there are too many reviews on magnum opera from The Greatest Books of All Time and other sites on this blog and YouTube channel of mine here https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html let me know if you enjoyed the trip

 

 

6 out of 10

 

What a crazy motion picture!

 

At least from my point of view: they kill animals for this feature, it was no special effects mirage here, they take this pig, hit him on the head, and then plunge the knife into his heart, as if this was not enough, a bird follows, most likely a duck or goose, which has its head cut off, and there is that inertia, the animal keeps moving!

You will tell me that this is hypocrisy, and you would be right

 

As long as I am not a vegetarian – in my defense, I had a few years on that side – what the hell am I talking about here?

 

After this quite horrifying experience – there is more than those killings, there are dead people in quite a lot of scenes, and again, I get it, the point is that the human race is murderous, after all, a war movie will depict many more deaths, mass killings actually – I am going to look for the films of Richard Linklater, about Godard

Nouvelle Vague https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/12/nouvelle-vague-by-jean-luc-godard.html was not just one of the best films of last year, 2025, but I will put it right at the top, along with Blue Moon, way better than Frankenstein, Sinners, if you ask me, I have not yet seen Hamnet, Marty Supreme…

 

However, seeing that I am not mad about Jessie Buckley, Chalamet appear to be a bit of a filfizon, pretentious fella – he always had this greed, looking for women with not just lots of money, but ridiculous amounts – I am unlikely to put either of their films ahead of Nouvelle Vague, except if there is magic

Seinfeld https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-seinfeld-scripts-by-jerry-seinfeld.html said something like ‘actors have nothing in that head, under that hair with oil (or was it gel) they come on the red carpet and act as if they are senators from the planet Krypton, we tell them say that thing we had told you, and voila, they are so great’

 

Weekend also has a segment which is not just erotic – nothing wrong with that, on the contrary – it is maybe ten minutes long (feels it is really more than a mainstream feature should have, although we have https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/11/nymphomaniac-written-and-directed-by.html where all the film is sex) and the main character is telling what happened to her, sex with this man, his wife, kinky stuff, she describes the motions, licking, sexual organs, then this weird thing in the kitchen: the spouse is made to sit in the plate of the cat, where she has milk, and then this other female is going down on the milk and all…

 

Now for my standard closing of the note with a question, and invitation – I am on Goodreads as Realini Ionescu, at least for the moment, if I keep on expressing my views on Orange Woland aka TACO, it may be a short-lived presence

Also, maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more than a million dollars with this https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html – as it is, this is a unique technique, which we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then make lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do not know how to get the benefits from it, other than the exercise per se

 

 There is also the small matter of working for AT&T – this huge company asked me to be its Representative for Romania and Bulgaria, on the Calling Card side, which meant sailing into the Black Sea wo meet the US Navy ships, travelling to Sofia, a lot of activity, using my mother’s two bedrooms flat as office and warehouse, all for the grand total of $250, raised after a lot of persuasion to the staggering $400…with retirement ahead, there are no benefits, nothing…it is a longer story, but if you can help get the mastodont to pay some dues, or have an idea how it can happen, let me know

 

As for my role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/realini-in-newsweek-participant-in.html

 

Some favorite quotes from To The Hermitage and other works

 

‘Fiction is infinitely preferable to real life...As long as you avoid the books of Kafka or Beckett, the everlasting plot of fiction has fewer futile experiences than the careless plot of reality...Fiction's people are fuller, deeper, cleverer, more moving than those in real life…Its actions are more intricate, illuminating, noble, profound…There are many more dramas, climaxes, romantic fulfillment, twists, turns, gratified resolutions…Unlike reality, all of this you can experience without leaving the house or even getting out of bed…What's more, books are a form of intelligent human greatness, as stories are a higher order of sense…As random life is to destiny, so stories are to great authors, who provided us with some of the highest pleasures and the most wonderful mystifications we can find…Few stories are greater than Anna Karenina, that wise epic by an often foolish author…’

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