Quartile rating: 8/10 · 1 rating
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.
Andrew Haigh's Weekend is a quietly radical romantic drama — intimate, naturalistic, and achingly specific in its portrayal of a gay relationship forming over a single weekend in Nottingham. Tom Cullen and Chris New deliver deeply honest, lived-in performances that anchor the film's improvisational dialogue. The cinematography is handheld and observational, functional rather than showy, serving the film's raw authenticity. Its novelty is genuinely high: at the time of release it offered an unromanticized, frank, and emotionally complex look at queer intimacy rarely seen on screen, with a voice entirely its own. The ending is bittersweet and restrained — effective but deliberately unresolved, which some find quietly devastating and others underwhelming.