La Chinoise
Classic French Cinema
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1h 36m
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard • Arthouse • 1967 • France • French with English subtitles
Starring Anne Wiazemsky, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Juliet Berto
Disillusioned by their suburban lifestyles, a group of students 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, an advocate of Maoism, infuriated many traditionalist critics with this swiftly paced satire.
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