La Chinoise

La Chinoise is a 1967 French political film directed by Jean-Luc Godard about young revolutionaries in Paris. La Chinoise is a loose adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's 1872 novel, The Possessed. In the novel, a group of five disaffected citizens, each representing a different ideological persuasion and personality type, conspire to overthrow the Russian imperial regime through a campaign of sustained revolutionary violence. The film, set in contemporary Paris and taking place in a small apartment, is structured as a series of personal and ideological dialogues dramatizing the interactions of five French university students — three young men and two young women — belonging to a radical Maoist group called the "Aden Arabie Cell" (named...