Chinese Girl

Jean-Luc Godard
Anne Wiazemsky, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Juliette Berto, Francis Jeanson, Blandine Jeanson, Michel Semeniako, Lex De Bruijn, Omar Diop, Eliane Giovagnoli
1967
France
Completed
French
96 minutes
Detailed introduction
This film (drama)Also known asLa chinoise,is aFranceProducerwomen sex,At1967Released in year
。The dialogue language isFrench,Current Douban rating7.5(For reference only)。
One day in the late 1960s. In a district of Paris. Veronica, the daughter of a banker, holds a meeting for the "Marxist-Leninist Communist" branch in a residence borrowed from a friend who is on vacation with her parents. The room is stacked with a large number of little red books, and handwritten quotations from Mao Zedong hang prominently on the walls. Amid the sound of a radio broadcast coming from Beijing, Veronica announces the official establishment of the branch, naming it "Aden-Arabia" to commemorate Paul Nizan, the author of the eponymous novel who was expelled from the French Communist Party. The branch members include young actor Jérôme, maid Ivona, painter Kirillov, and university student Henry. Veronica assigns the branch the task of "carrying out the struggle of two lines." At this moment, Henry, who had been absent, walks in, covered in blood, having been injured during a debate about China's "Cultural Revolution" with French Communist Party members at the University of Paris. This gives Veronica even more reason to assert the correctness of her "line," which is not only to avoid aligning with the French Communist Party but to consider it the primary enemy...
Director Godard is passionate about promoting Maoism, and his witty satire infuriated conventional critics. Godard's then-wife, Anne Wiazemsky, plays a philosophy student in the film, who sympathizes with four members of Maoist groups on campus. Their goals are constantly disrupted by external factors, such as posters, little red books, and dogmatic hymns, making it seem as if they can never clarify the true meaning of their political beliefs. They also fail to provide any ideological support for practical activities.
Godard clearly stands with the students' perspective, even as he attempts to adhere to the traditional style of revolutionaries while depicting their fervor.