Wind from the East (1969)

Original title

Le Vent d'est

Directed by

Jean-Pierre Gorin, Jean-Luc Godard

Genre

drama film

Country

France

Runtime

1h 35m

Rated

14+

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 27 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of radical filmmakers in 1970 uses a Western genre setting to question traditional filmmaking and political storytelling. The movie breaks standard narrative rules to encourage viewers to think critically about cinema and revolution.

fragmentedpoliticalexperimentalalienatingdidacticself-reflexivedisjointedprovocative

What happens

Wind from the East (French: Le Vent d'est) is a 1970 film by the Dziga Vertov Group, a radical filmmaking cooperative that, at its core, included Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin. As with most films from this period in Godard's career, directing credit was given to the collective and not himself or other individual filmmakers. Of the Dziga Vertov Group films, Wind from the East became particularly notable due to Peter Wollen's influential essay about it: "Godard and Counter Cinema: Vent d'est." Wollen contends that Wind from the East exemplifies how Brechtian principles of "epic theatre" can be applied to film as "counter cinema." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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