An almost unremittingly turgid film – saved from the scrapheap of forgettability by Godard’s experimentalism, use of color, and the fact that at times, he is unquestionably taking the piss out of his oh-so-serious radical salon revolutionaries. Anne Wiazemsky (from Bresson’s Au Hasard Balthazar the year before) happily cooks and cleans her way to emancipation here – becoming ‘Mrs Godard’ during the making of this film. Godard’s “collective film-making” of his ‘Dziga Vertov Group’ is right around the corner and is prefigured here – at least in the absolutism of the politics. Jean-Pierre Gorin , fellow member of Dziga Vertov, was initially angered after seeing La Chinoise – not believing that he and his friends really appeared that lame.
One interesting thing about this film is that it sort of predicted the 1968 student unrest in France.
Looks like a member of the Baader-Meinhof gang to me.
An almost unremittingly turgid film – saved from the scrapheap of forgettability by Godard’s experimentalism, use of color, and the fact that at times, he is unquestionably taking the piss out of his oh-so-serious radical salon revolutionaries. Anne Wiazemsky (from Bresson’s Au Hasard Balthazar the year before) happily cooks and cleans her way to emancipation here – becoming ‘Mrs Godard’ during the making of this film. Godard’s “collective film-making” of his ‘Dziga Vertov Group’ is right around the corner and is prefigured here – at least in the absolutism of the politics. Jean-Pierre Gorin , fellow member of Dziga Vertov, was initially angered after seeing La Chinoise – not believing that he and his friends really appeared that lame.