La Chinoise

Director: Jean-Luc Godard

Countries of origin: France

Language: French

Release date: March 4, 1968

Runtime: 1 hour 35 minutes

Sound mix: Mono

Aspect ratio: 1.33 : 1

Also known as: The Chinese

"La Chinoise" is a comedy film directed by Jean-Luc Godard and starring Jean-Pierre Leaud and Anne Wiazemsky.

The film tells the story of Veronica in a house in a certain district of Paris in the 1960s, and a meeting was held to announce the official establishment of the branch.

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By Kirstin 2022-12-10 00:31:57

The Chinese Girl: Godard's Political Aesthetics

What is socialism? Socialism is not a beautiful and empty slogan, nor does it mean that everyone is equal in the face of poverty, and that everyone must be equally poor; socialism should firstly develop the productive forces to prove that it is superior to other systems; History answers!

Godard's films always give people a strange and difficult impression. Although I admire his understanding and focus on the film form, the reality that I have to admit is that the whole viewing...
By Lupe 2022-12-07 18:51:13

felt the need for self-reflection

Theoretically speaking, it should be enough to get 4 points, but I can't take this hand, maybe because this style is not very pleasing to me, it reminds me of the painful time of reading Roland Barthes, so I will give it 3 points.
I had heard before that there was a period when the student communist movement was hot in France (as if it was the background of the dream of Paris?), but I didn't know more about it, I just knew it, and then I had the opportunity to see this film...
By Alexandro 2022-12-07 00:27:39

"The Chinese Girl" in "The Director's Talk"

"Chinese Girl" seems to take our readers back to the distant "Cultural Revolution" era. But to think that this film is just a naive simulation of the "unprecedented" "revolution" by Westerners is to greatly underestimate its impact.
This film is Godard's 14th feature film. Prior to this, as one of the main generals of the "New Wave", he has been internationally renowned for his business cards such as "Exhausted", "Little Soldier", "Do As You...
By Colten 2022-11-27 01:02:34

political prophet

Godard believed that aesthetics and politics were inseparable. His assertion is even supported by language: the word plan in French means both "lens" and "platform." Godard before 1972 was a staunch Maoist, and the "Dyga Vertov Group" he formed was ready for 1968 as early as 1966. The "Chinese Girl" filmed in 1967 even used the story of a group of young people who believed in Maoism to predict what would happen in the coming year.
When "Chinese Girl" was first released, it was attacked...
By Arielle 2022-11-03 19:01:11

We are unfortunate lovers in wrong times

I secretly thought that this was a philosophical film, a kind of talkative film. Revolutionary version of Love at the Break of Dawn. It's a dream, because a dream is close to reality.

"Is there really a socialism?" "I don't know, I'm still groping." Yes, that is a kind of doctrine, a beautiful assumption, because of the existence of human nature, it is probably difficult to do it, unless human invents something A drug that homogeneous human nature, but is it just that people are...

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By Kimberly 2023-09-16 19:09:44

What this film is about is what Marxism can be like once it is pulled into everyday life. Chinese girls use Marxism to discuss Marxism. In order to counteract formalized perception, Godard must add images that we are not accustomed to seeing. (Black, white scene, wrong frame,...
By Fatima 2023-08-23 16:09:35

What is valuable is that the opinions are constantly put forward and refuted, but the whole tone is desolate, a pregnancy in the times, with labor pains, hope and emptiness and loss, after the event, the situation changes, the people are scattered, and the tea is...
By Carleton 2023-08-11 05:39:31

A group of idle radical Maoist fanatical youths, chanting slogans between dorm rooms, listening to Beijing radio stations, holding little red books and imagining revolution. It is quite paradoxical that the contradictory self-criticism appeared in the second half. After discussing with the senior mentor who had participated in the Algerian war on the train, it was seen that the thought had entered a dead end, but in the future, I still had to practice "when the sun shines in the sky, I will...
By Alta 2023-08-05 15:16:14

Your movie is either Zuo-wing Gongdang or Grandpa Mao told me how to understand and continue stream of...
By Raina 2023-07-12 01:50:37

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Omar: [reading aloud] 'Cast away illusions and prepare for struggle. The world is as much yours as ours. In you lies the hope. Work is struggle and the practice of searching for the truth in the facts.'

Veronique: Yes, but what precisely is a fact?

Omar: 'Facts are things and phenomena as they exist objectively. The truth is the internal link of these things and phenomena, that is the laws that govern them. To search is to study. We must begin with the real situation inside and outside the country, the province, the prefecture and the county to employ the laws that are proper for this situation to guide our action and not generated by our imagination, that is to say to find the internal link of events unfolding around us.'
Guillaume: I would like to be blind.

Veronique: Why?

Guillaume: To talk to each other better. We would listen seriously.

Veronique: Ah yes. How come?

Guillaume: By delivering language differently. Listen, language has changed its meanings in two thousand years.

Veronique: So?

Guillaume: So we would talk seriously. Finally, these real meanings would change words.

Veronique: Ah yes, we would talk as if words were sounds and matter.

Guillaume: That's... what they... are. Veronique.

Veronique: Right. Let's start then.

Guillaume: By the river.

Veronique: Green and blue.

Guillaume: Tenderness.

Veronique: A bit of despair.

Guillaume: The day after tomorrow.

Veronique: Maybe.

Guillaume: Literary theory.

Veronique: A film by Nicholas... Ray.

Guillaume: The... Moscow... trials.

Veronique: Red... breast.

Guillaume: Rock... and roll.

Veronique: And so on.

Guillaume: And so on?

Veronique: And so on.

Guillaume: I love you, you know.
Kirilov: 'Art does not reproduce the visible but makes visible.'

Veronique: Yes, as imaginary aesthetics.

Kirilov: Yes, but this imaginary does not reflect reality. It is the reality of surreflexion. One can hear statements like 'use only the three colours, the three primary colours, blue, yellow and red, which are perfectly pure and thus perfectly balanced' on the pretext that all other colours can be found in them.

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