After Jean-Luc Godard’s death this Tuesday (13), Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho shared a Censorship Card written in 1968, in which the French director’s film “A Chinesa” is highly praised by censorship, but prohibited in the country. .
The censorship form, which you can see below, was posted by Kleber Mendonça Filho on his Twitter account, in which the director said: “Admirador censor. The movie is great, it needs to be banned. Brazil in the 1960s “.
The censorship sheet highlights the different technical qualities of Jean-Luc Godard’s film, stating that it is “the most perfect cinema”, but stresses that “its cause is totally harmful to us”.
The censor also claims that showing the film in Brazil would be “uncomfortable in all respects”. This is because “the more you see it, the visual messages, the words thrown at random, all forms of propaganda of the communist regime will remain in the mind of the public”.
Finally, the dossier praises “A Chinesa” even more, stating that “the editing is first-rate, Godard’s technique is undoubtedly one of the most perfect”, adding: “Mixing and sound in the class of masters of the new cinema French”.
“La Chinesa”, a 1967 film by Jean-Luc Godard, follows a philosophy student who forms a group with four other Maoist friends at the university, who initially discuss political and social issues. But eventually the group gets tired of the theory and moves on to extreme practices against what they see as injustices.
Jean-Luc Godard, in turn, was one of the great names in French and world cinema and a pioneer of the movement known as Nouvelle Vague. He died this Tuesday (13), at the age of 91, of assisted suicide.
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