La dialectique peut-elle casser des briques? (1973)

Directors:

Kuang-chi Tu
René Viénet

Writer:

Kuang Ni (writer)

Genre:

Comedy

Plot Keywords:

Situationism

Cast

Chan Hung Liu	...	(archive footage)
Ingrid Wu	...	(archive footage)
Jason Pai Piao	...	(archive footage)
Raoul Curet	...	(voice) (as Raoul Cure)
Jacques Thébault	...	(voice)
Michèle Grellier	...	(voice)
Dominique Morin	...	(voice)
Daniel Galle	...	(voice)
Patrick Dewaere	...	(voice)
Jean-Pierre Leroux	...	(voice)
Yves-Marie Morin	...	(voice)
Michel Bardelet	...	(voice)
Michel Elias	...	(voice)
Dominique Page	...	(voice)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Li Chai Chung	...	(archive footage)
Roland Giraud	...	(voice)

Also Known As:

Can Dialectics Break Bricks?

Runtime:

90 min

Country:

France

Language:

French

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Mono

Quotes:

Little Boy: Hey girlie, you ever read "Philosophy in the Boudoir" by the divine Marquis Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade, comrade of the Picques Section?
Woman: [looks forlorn]
Little Boy: What's wrong, darling?
Woman: The French edition is out of print - has been for a long, long time.
Little Boy: No, no. Champ Libre's going to reprint it in their "Classics of Subversion" series.

Movie Connections:

References Themroc (1973)

watch out for bad translations

"Please forgive her for being a Marxist, she just doesn't know better." was not the line in the film. the overdubbed story was that the little boy rejected the little girl for retaining her illusions about Castro. the guy then goes to the (now crying) little girl and tells her she shouldn't keep her illusions about Castro.

see it with a good translation....if you liked Woody Allens' 'What's Up Tiger Lilly', Dialectics is much funnier. though the jokes mostly are in line with leftists disillusionment with state socialism, if one isn't familiar with that line of thinking the jokes will seem very obscure....there definitely should be more 'detourned' films of this manner.