comparison to Luis Buñuel's The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
the absurdist humor, critique of bourgeois values, and narrative structure remind me of Buñuel's The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie. personally, I think Discreet Charm is funnier than Week End, but Godard's film is more interesting because it makes better use of film language... it uses Brechtian alienation and "anti-cinematic" techniques to challenge the viewer and question the nature of the film itself. when I first saw Discreet Charm, I thought it fell flat because it's satire wasn't a cohesive one. rather it was a series of jokes strung together that never made up a whole. although one could make the same critique of Week End, the very structure of the film itself makes this more difficult.
also note that one of the title cards in Week End reads "the exterminating angel" - the title of an earlier Buñuel film. having not seen that film, I'm not sure how to interpret that.