Jean-Luc Godard was a French intellectual filmmaker in the 1960's. He had previously been a film critic and writer and was part of the French New Wave movement revitalizing film in Europe. Godard was a hard core left winger in his politics. He used film to discuss and analyze his political and socialist beliefs. Godard was also very pretentious. Every time new Godard films were released, the East Coast critical establishment would swoon over them like they were the 2nd coming of something.
I can't help wondering if they actually watched these films and were able to stay awake at the same time.
La Chinoise is about a radical cell of left wing students plotting the assassination of a political figure. They are apparently infatuated with The Little Red Book of Chairman Mao. If these idiots knew anything about Mao, they would have known that he wasn't the nicest guy, if you can call not being a nice guy a man who was responsible for the deaths of millions of people.
What the film is really about is having a group of actors stand one at a time, in front of a camera spouting a lot of left wing gibberish at the audience. After about 15 minutes of this, I fast forwarded through the remainder of the film to see if got any better. It didn't. Back to the library it went.
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