La Chinoise (EOTWS)

End Of The Week Shorts #14 extract: La Chinoise (1967)



I'm not smart enough, nor do I know enough about politics and history, to keep up with this film. So, whether this be a genuine critical response, or an expression of ignorance, I didn't like this movie. 
La Chinoise, or The Chinese, is a barrage of endless political commentary and pure Godardian filmmaking rife with rule breaking which produces a unique kind of cinema that, though it is striking, is very tiring and largely little more than an expression of experimentation, not really a lasting form of film, nor something I'd like to see again (certainly not mimicked to produce other original films). And I think that is the biggest downfall of many of Godard's films; they are unique, but you wouldn't want to see a genre of films flourish from them, leaving them, in certain senses, throw-away experiments and a mere distraction from traditional, evolving forms of narrative cinema. 
The more I reluctantly burrow into Godard's filmography, the more averse I become to his filmmaking. Maybe one day I'll find something of his I like.

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