La Chinoise

Genres: Drama, Comedy

Languages: French

Year: 1967

Vote: 7

Festival & Award: Venice - Grand Jury Prize

La Chinoise

The showmakers

Jean-Luc Godard
Anne Wiazemsky
Jean-Pierre Léaud
Juliet Berto
Omar Diop

Overview

Paris, 1967. Disillusioned by their suburban lifestyles, a group of middle-class students, led by Guillaume (Jean-Pierre Léaud) and Veronique (Anne Wiazemsky), form a small Maoist cell and plan to change the world by any means necessary. After studying the growth of communism in China, the students decide they must use terrorism and violence to ignite their own revolution. Director Jean-Luc Godard, whose advocacy of Maoism bordered on intoxication, infuriated many traditionalist critics with this swiftly paced satire.

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