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The film blends scripted dialogue with interviews, including those of philosopher Francis Jeanson in a train scene, which highlights the absurdity of revolutionary chatter vs. reality.

This paper provides an analysis of Jean-Luc Godard’s 1967 film La Chinoise (or La Chinoise, ou plutôt à la Chinoise: un film en train de se faire ), a seminal work of political docufiction exploring radical Maoism in 1960s Paris. La Chinoise

I. Introduction

La Chinoise is a 1967 film by Jean-Luc Godard that acts as a hybrid of satire, pedagogical treatise, and pop-art, centering on five young Maoist activists. While often read as a prescient prediction of the May 1968 student uprisings in France, the film is better understood as a sophisticated interrogation of the limits of intellectualized revolutionary violence and the inherent contradictions of a bourgeois, student-led, Maoist cell called the "Aden Arabie Cell". The film blends scripted dialogue with interviews, including

A theater-driven character who often performs or gives monologues. A theater-driven character who often performs or gives

Bold colors, text-filled scenes, and quick cuts disrupt the viewing experience, forcing audiences to reflect rather than consume passively.

Represent different facets of the movement, from the questioning moderate to the isolated worker. C'est le petit livre rouge / Qui fait que tout enfin bouge