The one that Haskell Wexler was fired from (Wedigo von Shultzendorff took over).
It's a really clever idea (failing film director develops psychosomatic blindness and has to rely on Chinese translator to pretend he can still direct the film), based no doubt in part on the fact that Woody had actually worked with a Chinese cameraman on his previous three films (Zhao Fei).
That the French love the resultant mess of a film is I think a wry comment on how his own films are erratically received (and perhaps on the always unpredictable French?) This is one he thought he'd got right, but the public didn't go for it. It did $4m at home and the same in .. France! It wasn't even released here.
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