La Chinoise

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.

    Details

    • Release date March 4, 1968
    • Filming locations 15 Rue de Miromesnil, Paris, France
    • Production companies Anouchka Films, Les Productions de la Guéville, Athos Films

    Box office

    Gross US & Canada

    $36,488

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $9,355

    Gross worldwide

    $36,488

    Movie reviews

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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

      ...

    Movie plot

    One day in the second half of the 60's. A district of Paris. The banker's daughter Veronica held a meeting of the "Marxist-Leninist Communist Party" branch in a house borrowed by a girlfriend who had gone on vacation with her parents. A large number of small red books were piled up in the room, and some handwritten quotations from Shi Sanyazi hung prominently on the walls. In a radio broadcast from Beijing, Veronica announced the...
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    Creative ideas

    Director Jean-Luc Godard , obsessed with promoting Shisanyaism , has angered conformist critics with this astute satire. Jean-Luc Godard's then-wife Anne Wiazemsky plays a philosophy student who sympathizes with the four Maoist group members on campus. Their goals are always disturbed by external factors, such as posters, red books, dogmatic carols, etc., and they always seem to be confused about the true meaning of their political...
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    Movie quotes

    • Guillaume: Yes, yes, I think, I think we must be different from our parents. My father, for example, fought very hard against the Germans during the war, and now he runs a Club Med resort. You know, those big holiday condos by the sea. And the terrible thing is that he just can't figure out that they are made with exactly, exactly the same layout as the concentration camps.

    • Yvonne: To Paris? I arrived in '60... no, '65... oh yes... '64, sorry. Cleaning... for three years. Yes, sure it's good here on the top floor, and the light, it's clear. You know, I worked in Passy before and then in Auteuil. It was in bourgeois apartments, very large apartments then, which were on the first floor, they were usually very dark. I had to sweep in darkness. I entered the metro when it was already dark. I returned very late. And then it was always black. When coming back in the evening, it was dark on the metro. So here people discuss and talk. It's very clear to me.

    • 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.'