Jean-Luc Godard once famously observed, “All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl,” which is both a witty observation about cinema and a telling insight into his perspective on American culture as a European artist. Girls, guns, and the way American life looks to outsiders all figure into Shimon Dotan’s film
Watching TV With the Red Chinese, an occasionally witty but often tepid story of the eventually tragic interaction between three Chinese students and a handful of American bohemians in New York City.
Watching TV With the Red Chinese takes place in 1980, as Dexter (Ryan O’Nan), a professor teaching American literature and poetry at New Y...
Released:
2011
Rated:
NR
Length:
105 mins