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La Chinoise

La Chinoise

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Status

Released

Release Date

Aug 30, 1967

Runtime

1h 39m

Genres

Drama, Comedy

User Score

69%

Original Title

La Chinoise

Production Companies

Anouchka Films, Les Productions de la Guéville, Athos Films, Parc Film, Simar Films

Director

Jean-Luc Godard

Revenue

$30,857

Description

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. Director Jean-Luc Godard, whose advocacy of Maoism bordered on intoxication, infuriated many traditionalist critics with this swiftly paced satire.