One of Jean-Luc Godard's lesser-known '60s films, La Chinoise sees the director forge ahead on a course of political radicalism. Subtitled a "film in the process of making itself", it's a farcical account of five young people who've formed a Marxist-Leninist cell in Paris in the summer of 1967. Mao's Little Red Book is the essential reading for the likes of philosophy student Veronique (Anne Wiazemsky) and actor Guillaume (Jean-Pierre Leaud), who earnestly discuss the lessons that can be applied to France from the Chinese Revolution.
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