Jean-Luc Godard's Week-end, released in 1967, is the last film the director made before France was seized by the student uprising and general strike of May 1968. Outrage at the effects brought about by accelerated modernization was peaking. This modernization process, which began after the Second World War, intensified in the decade before the May events. As André Gauron explains, "at the end of the 50s, French society was shaken in its profundity by a strong demographic growth, new capitalistic ways of production, fast urbanization, the opening of frontiers for international exchange and decolonization." Gauron maintains that these transformations, and the war generation's aspirations for a new way of life, gave birth to Charles de Gaulle's Fifth Republic, which "created the political and social conditions for this period of growth without precedent of capitalism in France." (Gauron: 1983). In the battle against the centralist, authoritarian, and bureaucratic Gaullist regime and......

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