Jean-Luc Godard - La Chinoise (1967)

La Chinoise centres upon a small group of Parisian students who debate the cultural revolution in China and contemplate how Maoist principles and terrorist activities could be used to revolutionise Western politics. Optimum




Starring Godard's ex-wife Anne Wiazemsky and Truffaut favourite Jean-Pierre Léaud, La Chinoise also features the music of Karlheinz Stockhausen and the cinematography of Godard’s nouvelle vague counterpart Raoul Coutard. La Chinoise is frequently very funny and was awarded a special jury prize at the 1967 Venice Film Festival. Optimum




A small group of French students are studying Mao, trying to find out their position in the world and how to change the world to a Maoistic community using terrorism. (http://imdb.com/title/tt0061473/plotsummary)




The movie consist of a collage of a series of 'sketches'. Each offering an insightful, and somewhat 'second degrée', perspective of a group of näive bourgeois college students immersing themselves in the teachings of Chairman Mao, playing at plotting a communist coup, discussing politics in a college republic style, all the ideals that made the avant-garde at the time. Just before the romantic may 68 student riots. Godard's style is crude in a radical (typical of the time) and contaminated by contemporary pop-art, visually and also in the soundtrack. (amazon.com)