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30/08/1967 Drama, Comedy 1h 36m
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Overview

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.

  1. Jean-Luc Godard

    Director, Writer

Top billed cast

  1. Anne Wiazemsky

    Véronique

  2. Jean-Pierre Léaud

    Guillaume

  3. Juliet Berto

    Yvonne

  4. Michel Semeniako

    Henri

  5. Lex De Bruijn

    Kirilov

  6. Omar Diop

    Omar

  7. Francis Jeanson

    Francis

  8. Blandine Jeanson

    Blandine

  9. Eliane Giovagnoli

    Son Ami

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Reviews

A review by CRCulver
Written by CRCulver on 2018-06-05
In 1966, Jean-Luc Godard made the acquaintance of some young members of the French Left who felt a strong pull towards Maoism. By looking to China, they sought to escape the traditional division of the French Left into supporters of the Soviet Union, which had lost its revolutionary fervour, and Trotskyist parties, which were impotent. (Of course, at the time the West was still generally unaware of the horrific toll of Mao's policies.) Godard, whose sociological curiosity and political engagement was strong in these years, decided to study this phenomenon, and the result is LA CHINOISE. While ...read the rest
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