La Chinoise - Movie Trailer

Paris, 1967. Disillusioned by their suburban lifestyles, a group of middle-class students form a small Maoist cell and plan to change the world by any means necessary.

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http://www.kochlorberfilms.com/product.asp?ID=KLF-3115

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• chinoise
• jean
• luc
• godard
• maoist
• hippie
• counter-culture
• socialist
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[pamphilia]

If you've seen the film, you know that Godard's perspective is that of the ironist.

[InsurgenistCujo]

Long Live Maoism!

[theinfernalmonster]

Viva Mao e il suo pensiero

[jakeanddinoschapman]

thanks for recommending this film Mr Bordwell & Mrs Thompson (Film Art 4th edition - I'm cheap sorry, no 8th edition for me)

[nothingtruc]

And his films with the Dziga Vertov group, of course.

[nothingtruc]

@pamphilia

Godard was REALLY a maoist...

For to know, watch the interviews at that period of this grand artist...

[iown813]

@InsurgenistCujo go live under it you jackass

[Rodros69]

@pamphilia no, is a critized the dogmatic persons

[27103159]

I think that one of the causes which Godard explain a socialism perpspective is explain the many contraditons of the comunist's theory and this is a complexification about there.

In Brazil had a proeminent politic who said: "let's see what unites us rather than what separates us from"...The name of politic, who i quoted is Migual Arraes.In my opinion this is a ecellent sentenc because in the history the comunists party don't unit to combat a enemie number one: the capitalism.have to think about.

[JimFarm00]

I wonder why the description given of the clip describes the characters as being middle-class students. Actually, of the characters, only Veronique, Henri, and Omar, are supposed to be students.  Guillaume is an actor, Yvonne is a maid and occasional prostitute, and Kirilov is an artist. While the rest might have been middle class, Yvonne is clearly supposed to be a working class girl who was born a peasant.

[27103159]

The interesting of film is the human relatioship with the conceptions of socialism.Heve one who is defend the socialdemocracy.Anothers person of group have in maoism a hope for better days with a revolutionay action to comunist revolution.But the more interesting fact in the film is a engajament of the small burgueois to talk about many things of marxism, maoism in a perspective of liberal adolescents...in a small burgueois flat.Is a ironic, who Godard, in my opinpion...

[JimFarm00]

But even here, his stance at the time seems to be ambiguous. In the film, Godard relied upon the cameo appearance of Francis Jeanson to make the case against Veronique's resort to terrorism. But in interviews, Godard has stated that he was more sympathetic towards Veroniqe'a position than Jeanson's.