Jean-Luc Godard’s Le chinoise, an iconically playful and richly naïve snapshot of quasi-revolutionary bourgeoise youth made shortly before France’s May ‘68 uprisings, is very much en vogue at the moment. The 1967 film has been ingeniously reinvented in contemporary Black America by Ephraim Asili last year, in the essential The Inheritance, and now has been extended and expanded by Belgian artist Vincent Meessen with his essay film Just a Movement, which is being presented, like The Inheritance, in the Forum section of the Berlinale.Rather than effectively adapt the film’s premise to a new context, as Asili does, Meessen follows a key but frequently overlooked figure in the original film: the bracing presence of the only Black character in La chinoise, the Senegalese student, activist, and writer Omar Blondin Diop. This young man would return shortly after the shoot to a newly independent Senegal governed by Léopold Sédar Senghor...
- 3/5/2021
- MUBI
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