Synopsis
La Chinoise (1967) is Jean-Luc Godard's political comedy-drama you can watch online on iFILM. Shot in a single Paris apartment a year before the May 1968 uprisings, it follows a cell of French students who spend the summer reading Mao, debating terrorism, and painting slogans on their walls.
Anne Wiazemsky and Jean-Pierre Léaud lead the cast in what amounts to a filmed argument rather than a conventional film. Godard uses jump cuts, title cards, and mock-documentary passages to break up the talking — deliberately rough and deliberately unresolved. It is not a film that tells you what to think; it is a film that captures exactly how young radicals thought they were going to change the world before reality intervened. Seen from today, its mix of earnestness and absurdity lands as both time capsule and dry comedy.
Watch La Chinoise (1967) online on iFILM.
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