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A small group of French students are studying Mao, trying to find out their position in the world and how to change the world to a Maoistic community using terrorism.
La Chinoise
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La chinoise, ou plutôt à la chinoise: Un film en train de se faire, Kinesiskan, 中國女, Китаянка, The Chinese, Die Chinesin, La cinese, A Chinesa, La chinoise, Η Κινέζα, 中国女, 중국 여인, 中国姑娘, 中國女人, Çinli Kız, Kiinatar
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Hong Kong
Summer International Film Festival
24 Jun 2018
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Italy
Biografilm Festival
12 Sep 2021
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UK
Open City Documentary Festival
21 Apr 2022
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Germany
GoEast Festival of Central and Eastern European Film
Theatrical limited
22 Mar 1980
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Portugal
04 May 2008
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UK
06 Feb 2010
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Portugal
05 Jun 2014
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Greece
Theatrical
30 Aug 1967
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FranceTP
15 Nov 1967
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Sweden11
24 Nov 1967
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UK
18 Jan 1968
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Germany16
04 Mar 1968
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USANR
05 Apr 1968
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FinlandS
14 Jun 1968
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Denmark
26 Mar 1970
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Netherlands18
04 Jan 1973
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Argentina+13
12 Oct 2007
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USANR
24 May 2018
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Spain
23 Apr 2023
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Japan
Physical
13 May 2008
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Brazil
TV
30 Oct 1993
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Portugal
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Argentina
04 Jan 1973
- Theatrical+13
Brazil
13 May 2008
- Physical DVD
Denmark
14 Jun 1968
- Theatrical
Finland
05 Apr 1968
- TheatricalS
France
30 Aug 1967
- TheatricalTP
Germany
18 Jan 1968
- Theatrical16 West Germany
21 Apr 2022
- Premiere GoEast Festival of Central and Eastern European Film
Greece
05 Jun 2014
- Theatrical limited Greek Film Archive
Hong Kong
18 Aug 2017
- Premiere Summer International Film Festival
Italy
24 Jun 2018
- Premiere Biografilm Festival
Japan
23 Apr 2023
- Theatrical Re-release
Netherlands
26 Mar 1970
- Theatrical18
Portugal
22 Mar 1980
- Theatrical limited Porto (Cineclube do Norte)
30 Oct 1993
- TV
06 Feb 2010
- Theatrical limited Cinemateca Portuguesa
Spain
24 May 2018
- Theatrical
Sweden
15 Nov 1967
- Theatrical11
UK
24 Nov 1967
- Theatrical
04 May 2008
- Theatrical limited Cinema '68
12 Sep 2021
- Premiere Open City Documentary Festival
USA
04 Mar 1968
- TheatricalNR
12 Oct 2007
- TheatricalNR Re-release
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someone: dude u prefer men or women
me, gazing deeply into the distance, shoving a entire pack of cigarettes in my mouth after watching La Chinoise (1967): me⁉️🤔🧐 i ☝️☝️ have a HUGE 💪 preference pour la ☭☭☭ RÉVOLUTION ☭☭☭ getting involved with humans???? 😡😡😡 i only get involved with COMMUNISM 🔨⚒⛏ because je suis une ☭ COMMUNISTÉ ☭ my blood est 💉 rouge 💉 because that’s the 🔴 couleur 🔴 of la ✊✊ RÉVOLUTION ✊✊ je suis 😡 very 😡 angry 😡 because 💰💰💰💰💰capitalisme 💵💴💶💷💳 exists ☭ VIVA ☭ LA ☭ REVOLUCIÓN ☭
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Some of the readings on this film by certain American critics are so wildly misguided and prone to misinterpretation it's absurd - this is not a dialectical work, Godard was never any good at Brechtianisms. Rather, we see the beginnings here of his late style: total didactic turned into moving poetry. This brings on a remarkable contradiction - this super-didacticism gives us Godard at his coldest, yet finds in this record of collective responses, Godard the dreamer. La Chinoise is about one thing, yet it is expressed entirely through the exchange of ideas. This is the moment Godard stops making films about cinephila and becomes a radical political artist.
What else to write? I don't know - it's all didactism,…
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if a guy read aloud like men do in godard films in real life i'd punch him in the face but since it's jean-pierre leaud i'm all ears
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i went on a date with a very sexy marxist-leninist-maoist and he told me to watch this movie
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A lot of sugar to help the medicine of Marxism-Leninism go down. Yes, the kids are isolated buffoons, up in the clouds of revolutionary theory and a little too excited to kill people. But what's so good about the normie world? A bunch of bombs being dropped on Vietnam and stuffy old people holding meetings about criminal compromises. The kids know things can't go on like this and their confusion is ours.
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okay i have now read the entire bibliography of fyodor dostoevsky can i please take your order now or ill have to ask you to leave the restaurant
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"Art is not a reflection of reality, it is the reality of reflection."
"We must confront vague ideas with clear images."
Radicalized Pop. The notions of theory, and the process of practical applications. Its objective reality explodes with comic-book color and a logic of montage to illustrate a necessity of revolution. But within that framework is an ambition to let all of these ideas unfold in real time. Godard allows us to observe the tensions between realism and idealism while pushing for a broader understanding of political history.
It also reminded me of the intro to ye (lol):
"People say, "Don't say this, don't say that""
"Just say out loud, just to see how it feels"
"Weigh all the options, nothing's off the table" -
The brilliance of this film lies in the fact that you're never really sure if Godard tries to promote and celebrate Marxism; or if he's making fun of it, and portraying it as some kind of joke.
(Godard was obviously a communist, but that's beside the point...)
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To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Godard's cinema. The humour is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of political theory and social science most of the jokes will go over a typical viewer’s head. There’s also Godard's class - conscious outlook, which is deftly woven into his filmmaking - his personal ethos draws heavily from Marxist - Leninist ideology, for instance. The connoisseurs understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes, to realise that they’re not just funny- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike Godard cinema truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn’t appreciate, for instance, the humour…
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