Chinese Girl

Jean-Luc Godard
Anne Wiazemsky, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Juliette Berto, Francis Lemarque, 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 second half of the 1960s. In a district of Paris. Veronika, the daughter of a banker, holds a meeting of the "Marxist-Leninist Communist" branch in a borrowed apartment from a friend who is on vacation with her parents. The room is piled high with little red books, and some handwritten Mao Zedong quotes are prominently displayed on the walls. As the radio from Beijing broadcasts, Veronika announces the official establishment of the branch, naming it "Aden-Arabia" to commemorate Paul Nizan, the author of the eponymous novel expelled from the French Communist Party. The branch members include young actor Jérôme, maid Yvonne, painter Kirilov, and university student Henry. Veronika sets the branch's task to "conduct a struggle along two lines." At this moment, Henry, who had been absent, enters. He is covered in blood from being injured during a debate about China's "Cultural Revolution" with French Communist Party members at the University of Paris. This gives Veronika even more reason to declare the correctness of her "line," which not only avoids alliance with the French Communist Party but sees it as the main enemy...
Director Godard is passionate about promoting Maoism, and his sharp satire infuriated conventional critics. Godard's then-wife Anne Wiazemsky plays a philosophy student in the film who feels sympathetic towards the four Maoist group members on campus. Their goals are constantly disrupted by external factors like posters, little red books, and dogmatic songs, and they seem perpetually unclear about the true meaning of their political beliefs. They also cannot provide any ideological support for practical activities.
Godard clearly stands on the side of the students, although he tends to align with the traditional style of revolutionaries when describing their fervor.