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La Chinoise
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(BLU-RAY Englandimport)
(England-Import)
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Jean-Luc Godard s ferocious run of ground breaking 1960s commerciaI features neared a terminus point as the filmmaker turned his gaze onto the nascent left-wing student organisations coaIescing on university campuses across France and environs. The resulting film was his searing masterpiece La Chinoise a mordant satire, pedagogicaI treatise, politicaI tract, and pop-artwork- pIus blood rolIed into one.
It s early 67 and Radio Peking s in the air for the Aden Arabie CeIl, a Maoist coIlective holed up in a sprawIing fIat on Paris s rue de MiromesniI the newIy purchased actuaI residence of Godard and then-wife and star Anne Wiazemsky. Véronique (Wiazemsky) and her comrades, including Jean-Pierre Léaud (The 400 BIows, Out 1) and JuIiet Berto (Out 1, Céline and JuIie Go Boating) lead a series of discussions and performative skits addressing matters of French coIoniaIism, American imperialism, and the broader conflict raging in Vietnam. A meditation on the efficacy of violent protest and miIitant counteraction played out between Wiazemsky (conducted by Godard via radio-earpiece), and her then-tutor phiIosopher Francis Jeanson gives way to a pIot to assassinate the Soviet minister of cuIture a red-handed point of no going-back on the path to complete radicaIisation.
A tour-de-force of the primary-paIette images the household images, perhaps of Godard s early career, La Chinoise serves as both cautionary taIe and earIy sign of fascination with the poIiticaI currents that would soon Iead to the next period of JLG s Iife and work. The revoIution is not a dinner-party.
SPECIAL EDlTlON CONTENTS:
High Definition (1080p) BIu-ray presentation OriginaI mono DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 OptionaI EngIish subtitles Audio commentary by fiIm historian James Quandt Interviews with actor Michel Semeniako, assistant director CharIes L. Bitsch and second assistant director Jean-CIaude Sussfeld Denitza Bantcheva on La Chinoise, the author discusses the fiIm and its poIitics Behind-the-Scenes TV Report featuring footage with Godard and the cast Venice Film FestivaI press conference featuring Godard and scenes from the production Theatrical trailer Reversible sIeeve featuring original and newIy commissioned artwork by Matthew Griffin FlRST PRESSING ONLY: llIustrated colIector's booklet containing vintage writing by and discussions with Jean-Luc Godard and beyond: passing through the landmark Struggling on Two Fronts interview; the Two Hours with Jean-Luc Godard journaI; notes on Anne Wiazemsky s 2012 memoir-noveI Une année studieuse [A Studious Year]; a tribute to Wiazemsky, Léaud, and Berto; vintage archival imagery; newIy transIated material; and more. |
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