Le Week-End is the fourth collaboration between director Roger Michell and writer Hanif Kureshi, following The Buddha of Suburbia, The Mother and Venus. Meg and Nick are a middle-aged couple who travel to Paris for a weekend break, in the hope of escaping their humdrum lives in Birmingham and reviving their flagging marriage. Over the course of the weekend the couple enjoy Parisian life, and occasionally each other’s company, but their attempts to get back to the carefree days of their youth are not without difficulty.