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.
Direction
Godard breaks the fourth wall until it ceases to exist.
Writing
Dialogue that's 70% direct Marxist quotes somehow works.
Production
Primary colors weaponized as ideological statements.
Director
Jean-Luc Godard
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Godard later disowned this as 'the last breathless film' before his true political cinema began — ironic given it basically predicted May 1968.
Anne Wiazemsky was Godard's wife during filming; their marriage collapsed shortly after, making her character's disillusionment eerily prophetic.
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