One More Effort, Chinamen, if you want to be revolutionaries! (1977)
- Original title
- Chinois, encore un effort pour être révolutionnaires
- Directed by
- René Viénet
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- France
- Runtime
- 1h 52m
- Rating
- 7.4 of 10 from 5 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This documentary uses spliced archive footage to criticize Mao's leadership in China. It mixes historical clips with a sardonic tone borrowed from a Marquis de Sade pamphlet.
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What happens
Chinese People, One more effort, to be revolutionaries! (Chinois, encore un effort pour être révolutionnaires) a.k.a. Peking Duck Soup is a 1977 film by Situationist director René Viénet. Unlike his earlier films Can dialectics break bricks? and The Girls of Kamare, which "detourned" drama films, in this one, Viénet uses a great variety of sources (particularly archive footage of People's Republic of China leaders) to compose a political documentary sharply critical of Mao's legacy in China. The title is a reference to the pamphlet "Français, encore un effort si vous voulez être républicains" featured in Philosophy in the Bedroom of Marquis de Sade. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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