The Chinese Girl

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The Chinese Girl

1967

1h 30m

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This dark French comedy by Jean-Luc Godard focuses on a group of students who have embraced Maoist ideals and strive to incite revolution through terrorist violence. Two of the members, Guillaume (Jean-Pierre Léaud) and Véronique (Anne Wiazemsky), are romantically linked, though their relationship is strained by their commitment to the cause. The group eventually plots to assassinate a high-ranking Russian governmental official who is visiting Paris, but things don't go according to plan.

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David Fear

Time Out

Rated: 4/5

Nov 18, 2011

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Ben Kenigsberg

Time Out

Rated: 5/5

Nov 17, 2011

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Michael Phillips

Chicago Tribune

Maybe Andy Warhol didn't make the quintessential Pop Art masterwork. Maybe Jean-Luc Godard did.

Rated: 3.5/4

Feb 15, 2008

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Kathy Fennessy

Seattle Film Blog

His color-coded collage-like approach, in which classical music mingles with comic book art, still looks fresh--and feels even more radical than the politics at hand.

Rated: 3/4

Sep 16, 2021

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Robert Kotlowitz

Harper's Magazine

Its pace, for all the talk, is exhilarating, its use of primary colors hard and beautiful, its shifts of mood and action are both intricate and dazzling; while its feeling for its characters is always serious and affectionate, even when Godard is mocking.

Aug 4, 2020

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Gene Youngblood

Los Angeles Free Press

Deep, rich, profound, [and] overwhelming.

Jan 31, 2020

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A political film made with few resources

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/07/23

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Aside from being an oddly effective experimental film, Godard's movie not only captures the mood of a generation in 1968 --- it seems to pull you back to the time. There is an odd sort of cinematic alchemy going on here.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

02/22/23

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No matter what genre you opt to place it, Godard's LA CHINOISE is pure pop art. And, it is nothing short of fantastic.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/29/23

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The first hour of the film is nothing but a bunch of pretentious college students confusing Marxism and theatre, I was sure I was going to hate this. And then the movie changes gears.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/05/23

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A very funny film that was a joy to see. Jean-Luc Godard proves he can do anything with this one, this film has so many things that make it hard to like but he makes it enjoyable. I especially loved that Mao song.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/04/23

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Since the Pierrot le Fou every Godard movie loses it's narrative plot and becomes a set of dialogues. La Chinoise is the first step to completely unwatchable cinema. But nobody says it's bad. It's pretty good.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/12/23

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Synopsis

This dark French comedy by Jean-Luc Godard focuses on a group of students who have embraced Maoist ideals and strive to incite revolution through terrorist violence. Two of the members, Guillaume (Jean-Pierre Léaud) and Véronique (Anne Wiazemsky), are romantically linked, though their relationship is strained by their commitment to the cause. The group eventually plots to assassinate a high-ranking Russian governmental official who is visiting Paris, but things don't go according to plan.

Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Producer: Mag Bodard
Screenwriter: Jean-Luc Godard
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Original Language: Canadian French
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 22, 2018
Box Office (Gross USA): $5.6K
Runtime: 1h 30m

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