La Chinoise

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Jean-Pierre Leaud rests his chin on his hand while holding a notebook, seated beside Anne Wiazemsky, who wears a cap and holds an open book, in a scene from La Chinoise.

La Chinoise

film by Godard [1967]

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Jean-Luc Godard
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…left-wing thought was implicit in La Chinoise (1967; its title is slang for Parisian Maoists) and was confirmed by Godard’s active participation in the Paris student riots of 1968 and other demonstrations. Weekend, also made in 1967, was a hard-hitting denunciation of modern French society.
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…left-wing thought was implicit in La Chinoise (1967; its title is slang for Parisian Maoists) and was confirmed by Godard’s active participation in the Paris student riots of 1968 and other demonstrations. Weekend, also made in 1967, was a hard-hitting denunciation of modern French society.
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Jean-Pierre Léaud
Masculin-Féminin (1966; Masculine Feminine), La Chinoise (1967), and Le Week-End (1967; Weekend). He also played parts in films by Jerzy Skolimowski and Bernardo Bertolucci, appearing in the latter’s Last Tango in Paris (1972). An actor of limited range, Léaud nevertheless endowed the role of a scatterbrained young man with…
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Masculin-Féminin (1966; Masculine Feminine), La Chinoise (1967), and Le Week-End (1967; Weekend). He also played parts in films by Jerzy Skolimowski and Bernardo Bertolucci, appearing in the latter’s Last Tango in Paris (1972). An actor of limited range, Léaud nevertheless endowed the role of a scatterbrained young man with…
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