La Chinoise (1967)
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard
A small group of French students are studying Mao, trying to find out their position in the world and how to change the world to a Maoistic community using terrorism.
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The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun (2021)
Directed by Wes Anderson
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There’s the aforementioned sheer concentration of material, of course, but also the unabashed New Yorker fandom (many if not most of the French Dispatch staff have real-life New Yorker counterparts, and at least two of the tales are based on real pieces), the cinematic homages to the French New Wave (especially Godard’s La Chinoise in the second section), and the nostalgic veneration of high/fine/French culture.
Si se quiere se trata de un homenaje a la cultura francesa desde el que recorrer, entre 1950 y 1970, todos y cada uno de los arquetipos que han configurado una forma de ver el mundo a la que no son ajenas ni el cine de Jacques Tati o Carné o Truffaut ni el Tour ni La Chinoise .
Seydoux gives a charismatic and terrifying performance, reminiscent of the "children of Marx and Coca Cola" in Jean-Luc Godard's early work, most particularly Veronique, the heartless redheaded revolutionary in "La Chinoise."
Before the revolution comes crashing in near the end, Bertolucci's young lovers--whose freak flag is a huge poster of La Chinoise hung over the mattress--have scarcely noticed that there's a riot going on.
The prominently displayed La Chinoise (Jean-Luc Godard, 1967) poster on Theo's wall notwithstanding, the cinema The Dreamers draws on is more '59 than '68, the giddy thrill of new found moral and aesthetic freedom, as well as celebration of youthfulness, in certain works of the early New Wave À Bout de souffle (Jean-Luc Godard, 1959), Une Femme est une femme (Jean-Luc Godard, 1961), Shoot the Pianist (François Truffaut, 1961), Jules et Jim (François Truffaut, 1962).
The mood of impassioned, questioning sympathy in Waking Life is similar to Godard's in his films from the sixties and seventies, especially La Chinoise, with its agitating intellectual renegades.