Weekend: I giggled, but so what?

I had a really fun time watching Weekend, but afterward when I was hanging around with fellow viewers I found that there was more to laugh about than to discuss. To me, this reaction seemed to uphold Wollen's view of Godard's mode of counter-cinema as a launching point rather than a cinematic end-in-itself. It certainly had an initial impact on me. It felt liberating to watch; the lack of conventional rules refreshed the medium of film for me, offering a sense of expanded space and possibility. The instability of the film-- the sudden switches between pain/pleasure, narrative/free-film, live-action/text-- provided a new system of navigating through the "film world," the sea of cinematographic possibilities. I felt like the boat had been sunk and I had been dropped into the ocean with a strange new set of flippers with which to paddle around.

Perhaps this is enough to constitute good film, but I certainly agree with Wollen that it is one essential part of a continuum of pushing cinema boundaries-- my question is, what next?