Clone of La Chinoise (Jean-Luc Godard, 1967)
One of the pillars of the beginning of Jean-Luc Godard’s revolutionary period, La Chinoise is a colorful and often overlooked staple of the French New Wave.
Film/Video Theater
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This pop-art masterpiece both channels and parodies the revolutionary energies of Paris in 1967. Disillusioned by their suburban lifestyles and heavily influenced by Chinese communism, a group of middle-class students led by Gillaume (French New Wave icon Jean-Pierre Léaud) and Véronique (Anne Wiazemsky) form a small revolutionary group and plan to change the world by any means necessary. The film’s sole Black actor, Senegalese activist and writer Omar Blondin Diop, is the subject of Vincent Meessen’s essay film Just a Movement. Meessen visits the Wexner Center on March 27 to participate in this year’s Director’s Dialogue, and Just a Movement screens on March 25 and 28. In French with English subtitles. (96 mins., DCP)