La Chinoise [Blu-ray]

Director: Jean-Luc Godard Jean-Luc Godard

Overview

Director Jean-Luc Godard, whose advocacy of Maoism bordered on intoxication, infuriated many traditionalist critics with his swiftly paced satire La Chinoise. Godard's then-wife Anne Wiazemsky plays a philosophy student who commiserates with the four members of her campus Maoist group. They are so taken by the external trappings of their cause--the posters, the Little Red Books, the by-rote chantings--that they seem not to grasp the true meaning of their political persuasion. Nor do they give any thought to the long-range ramifications of their terrorist activities. Godard is obviously on the students' side throughout, though he balances their fanaticism with the comparative gentility of old-style revolutionaries. Nonfans of Godard were given migraines by the director's perverse refusal to film even the simplest sequence in a linear, logical fashion. La Chinoise quickly gained the reputation of a "head film", best appreciated when the viewer is stoned. In these PC days, the audience for this sort of film is generally "straight"...which may be why it has seldom been shown in recent years.

Product Details

Release Date:	10/17/2017
UPC:	0738329224691
Original Release:	1967
Rating:	NR
Source:	Kino Classics
Region Code:	A
Sound:	[DTS 5.1-Channel Surround Sound]
Language:	English
Time:	1:36:00
Sales rank:	27,185

Special Features

Audio commentary by film historian James Quandt; Trailers; Interviews With: ; Actor Michel Semeniako; Assistant director Charles Bitsch; 2nd assistant director Jean-Claude Sussfeld; Writer Denitza Bantcheva; Film historian Antoine de Baecque

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Anne Wiazemsky	Veronique
Jean-Pierre Léaud	Guillaume
Juliet Berto	Yvonne
Michel Semeniako	Henri
Lex de Bruijn	Kirilov
Omar Diop	Comrade X
Francis Jeanson	Himself,Blandine
Eliane Giovagnoli	Actor

Technical Credits

Jean-Luc Godard

Jean-Luc Godard	Director,Screenwriter
René Levert	Sound/Sound Designer