Wind from the East

1970 [FRENCH]

Action / Drama

5
IMDb Rating 5.8/10 10 771 771

communism

Plot summary

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.

Director

Jean-Luc Godard Photo
Jean-Luc Godard

Top cast

Götz George Photo
Götz George as Soldat
Allen Midgette Photo
Allen Midgette as L'Indien
Daniel Cohn-Bendit Photo
Daniel Cohn-Bendit
Cristiana Tullio-Altan Photo
Cristiana Tullio-Altan as La jeune bourgeoise
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762.42 MB
968*720
French 2.0
NR
Subtitles fr  
23.976 fps
1 hr 35 min
Seeds 2
1.46 GB
1440*1072
French 2.0
NR
Subtitles fr  
23.976 fps
1 hr 35 min
Seeds 7

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by adrian_knott

The Jean-Luc Godard Endurance Test

Film theorists like to call this type of film an example of "counter-cinema", an attempt by a filmmaker to dislocate the viewer from any pre-conceived ideas of, say, narrative and acting so that he can raise the question of what traditional narrative cinema does to the spectator. In other words, by drawing our attention to the way a film is made he can confound our enjoyment and break the hypnotic effect a traditional film has on us. But who the hell wants that? If I wanted my enjoyment confounded, I'd rent "Flowers in the Attic"."Le Vent d'est" isn't so much a film as an essay on Communism and the insidious effect American culture has on the individual. It's also possibly the funniest thing I've ever seen. I saw this in an arthouse cinema in the late eighties and for two hours I sat biting my lower lip to prevent myself from laughing out loud. I needn't have bothered, because most of the audience had left within half an hour of the film starting. I wish I could remember it more vividly because I could share with you some of the stuff in it. One scene I do remember, though, is the one where Gian Maria Volonte (the bad guy in the Clint Eastwood spaghetti westerns) throttles some woman while someone else off-screen pelts her on the back of the head with red paint. What does it mean? Who knows? In this case, I'm proud to be a philistine.The worst thing about this film isn't the acting, the direction, or the dialogue (these are all irrelevant in this film, anyway). No, the worst thing is that Godard is arrogant enough to suggest that the average audience has no critical faculties of its own. Even worse that he feels he has to draw it to our attention.
Reviewed by davidemartin 1 / 10

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.
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