La Chinoise

Uploaded on Monday 1 January 2007

DESCRIPTION

“Still amazing 40 years later…remains more inventive than any new movie” –The Washington Post

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.

“(4 stars graphic)…A Molotov mixture of comedy and commentary” –Time Out New York

DVD Extras
Godard editing table interview*
Venice Film Festival press conference footage*
Interview with Anne Wiazemsky*
Intro by Colin MacCabe (author of Godard: A Portrait of the Artist at Seventy)
*never-before-released vintage footage

DETAILS

Language: French

Length: 1:33

Country: France


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