Kino: Two Restored Jean-Luc Godard Flims Coming to Blu-ray in October
Posted July 20, 2017 05:09 PM by Webmaster
Kino Lorber have sent us a trailer for the recent restorations of Jean-Luc Godard's films La Chinoise (1967) and Le Gai Savior (1969), which will transition to Blu-ray in October. Kino Repertory will screen the restorations in select theaters across the nation.
La Chinoise opens July 21 and Le Gai Savior opens July 28 at the Quad Cinema in New York City.
1967. Disillusioned by their suburban lifestyles, a group of middle-class students, led by Guillaume (Jean-Pierre Léaud) and Veronique (Anne Wiazemsky), form a small Maoist cell and plan to change the world by any means necessary. After studying the growth of communism in China, the students decide they must use terrorism and violence to ignite their own revolution. Director Jean-Luc Godard, whose advocacy of Maoism bordered on intoxication, infuriated many traditionalist critics with this swiftly paced satire.
While alone in an abandoned television studio, two militants, Emile Rousseau (Jean-Pierre Leaud) and Patricia Lumumba (Juliet Berto), have a discourse on language. Referring to spoken word as "the enemy"--the weapon used by the establishment to confuse liberation movements--the two deconstruct the meanings of sounds and images in an attempt to "return to zero" and truly experience the joy of learning.