Wind from the East 1970 123movies

Watch: Le Vent d’est 1970 123movies, Full Movie Online – A filmic essay on class struggle which draws on images from westerns but has no plot and is both an experiment in making a revolutionary film and an interrogation of how successfully such a film can be revolutionary..
Plot: A politically oriented film in which images suggestive of a mock western are accompanied by an attack on all cinematic conventions to date and a debate on the nature and possibility of revolutionary cinema.
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A truly wretched, nausea-inducing waste of film
You know those “worst films of all time” lists? This one tops my list!

How to describe it? The film is a long pointless diatribe against the West and an endorsement of French Communism. The film supposedly illustrates crimes against society committed by the west but the acting (and costuming) looked like a Haight Ashbury Summer’o’Love stock production.

The film is very grainy. Apparently Godard shot it on 8mm film. His disciples then blew it up to 35mm for its extremely limited arthouse release. The copy I suffered through had been shrunk back to 16mm (the format for rental films).

Oh, and the narration? Godard’s diatribe is delivered by a somewhat bored Frenchman. That was bad enough but Godard’s disciples had added an English-speaking female narrator to make the politics accessible to western audiences. The problem was, Godard refused to let them delete the French voicetrack! So…. for two wretched hours, the French and English narrations go on SIMULTANEOUSLY! Add to this the lousy acting, minimal production, and grainy film and you have EXCEDERIN HEADACHE #1.

Poetry of the Damned
When one enters a movie theater with the intention to watch a Godard film, one has to bear in mind that: 1)it will not be a ‘regular’, that is ‘industrial’ film, with linear narrative; and 2)there will be a strong reaction from the viewer (usually negative, especially from people who are not used to watching this authorial/Nouvelle Vague/Cinema Novo type of film, and even more especially on those that says ‘mise-en-scène: Jean-Luc Godard’ somewhere during the credits.

“Wind From the East” (“Le Vent D’Est”, “Vento do Leste”) is a very deep and highly political discussion about communism, capitalism, art, revolution, intellectualism, Maoism, USSR, tradition, paradigms, poetry… It’s hard to put it in terms of “it’s about…”, since the sequence of images is not based in any form of traditional narrative. In fact, it’s the very opposite of it, its essence sprouting from the need of subversion, a need directly connected to the social/historical/political/artistic context of the 60’s and 70’s: to show things in a different way leads the viewer to see differently, therefore to think differently. A experimental cut, poetic even, given the metaphorical quality of the images. The frontiers of film language fades and encounters those of other art forms, not to weaken the film unity nor its message, but to strengthen them both.

One highlight (attention, should NOT be taken as a spoiler): the featuring of Glauber Rocha, director representative of Brazilian Cinema Novo (whose political attitude towards cinema establishes the proper dialog with Group Dziga Vertov’s intention), singing Gal Costa’s “Divino, Maravilhoso” (something like “Divine, Wonderful”).

Long story short: a wonderful film, Godard in tip-top shape! For stuff alike watch “Sympathy for the Devil:One Plus One” [1968], featuring the creative process in which the Stones made song number one from “Beggars Banquet”.

Other Information:

Original Language fr
Runtime 1 hr 35 min (95 min)
Budget 0
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Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Drama
Director Groupe Dziga Vertov, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin
Writer Sergio Bazzini, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Jean-Luc Godard
Actors Gian Maria Volontè, Anne Wiazemsky, Cristiana Tullio-Altan
Country Italy, France, West Germany
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Sound Mix Mono
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Negative Format 16 mm
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Printed Film Format 16 mm, 35 mm (blow-up)