Weekend

A delicate and daring drama directed by Andrew Haigh and featuring breakout performances by Tom Cullen and Chris New, WEEKEND follows Russell (Cullen) who, after randomly picking up an artist Glen (New) at a nightclub on a Friday night, unexpectedly spends most of the next 48 hours with him in bedrooms and bars, telling stories and having sex. As they spend more time together, sharing snippets of their lives, they begin to reveal the things that hold them back as much as push them forward and develop a connection that will resonate throughout their lives.

WEEKEND is an affecting and naturalistic romance, a beautiful exploration of how two people can come together only briefly, yet impact each other in a profound way.

“On a Friday night, Russell (Tom Cullen) and Glen (Chris New), two young Brits, meet in a Nottingham bar, come back to Russell’s flat, have drunken sex, then fall asleep. Saturday morning brings awkwardness, coffee, and then, a peculiar conversation starter from Glen, a budding artist. Russell, a semi-closeted swimming pool lifeguard, reluctantly plays along and starts talking about what he’s been feeling from the instant he first saw Glen. And so it begins—a two-day conversation that’s filled with intimacy and revelation, interspersed with increasingly intense sex, a heated philosophical argument or two, and a growing awareness between the two men that they are sparking change in one another. Which is terrifying. The debut feature of writer-director Andrew Haigh, Weekend is a small, perfect thing, a likely classic, I think – and not just a gay one.” (Chuck Wilson, Village Voice/L.A. Weekly)

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