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.
Weekend is a captivating combination of Brief Encounter and Before Sunset that will quietly steal the heart of audiences gay, straight or anywhere in between.
Weekend is the year’s wittiest hymn to romance.
It’s a lovely film: simple, nuanced and truthful about the quiet yearning that everyone has to be understood and loved.
Cullen turns in a moving performance as the shy lifeguard looking for coupledom, with New providing a winning balance as the more confident part of what might, or might not, end up as a partnership.
Weekend is a gay romance that’s tender, funny and unafraid of the naked truth.
Weekend is readily accessible to any audience and ends up being touching, real and the year’s most engaging and believable romance.
Offers up the kind of subtle, truthful relationship drama that’s all too rare in cinema. It also serves up a clever commentary on sexuality that lays down a challenge to straight audiences who, in the words of one character, are more likely to give art featuring refugees, murder or rape a chance than art featuring gay sex.
The two leads are excellent...and Haigh's feel for the drab architectural beauty of [Nottingham] goes deep.
A remarkable film that signals an exciting new voice in the LGBT landscape.
It is a tender, humane film, with an easy, unforced cinematic language: a film that doesn't need to try too hard.
There's a deceptive simplicity to British writer-director Andrew Haigh’s poignant, fluent character study, which has already earned comparisons to Before Sunrise.
There's a fresh, sweaty, honest, unpretentious air to it.
This intelligent and moving film reminds you that low-budget realism can get into the emotional places that bigger films can't. It's one of the best, and most individual, of the year.
General release. Check local listings for show times.
Edinburgh Filmhouse, Edinburgh from Saturday February 25, 2012, until Sunday February 26, 2012. More info: www.filmhousecinema.com
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