For
many years I have said, "The only time I made a mistake is when I
thought I made a mistake, " well today I made another one. I had
intended to go see "Bad Words" that has been out for two weeks and I
have heard good things about but a new film opened called "Le Week-End"
at the Gateway Theatre and decided to see that instead. It was such a
bad decision on so many levels though
I always try (eliminate try from a sentence and it becomes a positive
sentence!) to find something positive in every movie I see.

Knowing
the film takes place in Paris we were sort of wondering if there would
be sub-titles but, sadly, it wasn't because we may have understood the
movie better. It is basically about a couple celebrating their 30th anniversary coming from Birmingham (England? Or Alabama? Doesn't
matter.) It sort of seems to explain why there are so many divorces
among married people but I feel it was really about the various feelings
long term relationships go through.

Jim
Broadbent, as Nick, is a professor who has been asked to retire early
due to something he said to a black girl in one of his classes regarding
her hair while Lindsay Duncan, as Meg, is a schoolteacher who is
looking for romance, in her marriage or not, yet refuses to have sex
with her husband. Their ambivalent feelings toward each other comes and goes.

The catalyst that makes them move is caused by Morgan, played by Jeff Goldblum, a
former student of Nick, who sees his old professor as the man who
motivated him to become a successful writer and after bumping into each
other walking in the street, with Morgan, seeing the husband an wife in a
passionate kiss, invites them to dinner. At the dinner Meg is invited
to have a drink at a corner bar which she accepts.

The film doesn't seem to have an ending that doesn't end though it does have a cute dance scene in restaurant bar.

One
of the major faults of the movie is that Lindsay Duncan is quiet spoken
but to a point that you almost don't hear her though as an actress you
can follow her story. 

Some
audience members laughed a lot when Broadbent dshare a joint with
Morgan's son but this scene has been played in so many films we couldn't
understand the laughter.

I
really don't know what the director, Roger Michell, and writer, Hanif
Kurelshi, was trying to say in this film but I came away with that
passion disappears in long relationships and that very low speaking lead
actresses do not help a fan. I did speak to Ray on the way out and tell
them that should raise the sound just a bit to make Duncan audible and
not make the other actors seem to be shouting.
By the way I may go to see "Bad Words" today!!!