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Verenigd Koninkrijk
Documentaire
101 minuten

geregisseerd door Jean-Luc Godard
met Mick Jagger, Keith Richards en Brian Jones

Godards analyse van de tegencultuur eind jaren '60, waarin onder andere de Black Panthers, de rol van de media, de toenemende technocratie en de opkomst van de vrouwenbewegingen aan bod komen. Dit alles wordt afgewisseld met opname-sessies van de Rolling Stones.

Godard's documentation of late 1960's western counter-culture, examining the Black Panthers, referring to works by LeRoi Jones and Eldridge Cleaver. Other notable subjects are the role of the media, the mediated image, A growing technocratic society, Womens Liberation, the May revolt in France and the power of language. Cutting between 3 major scenes, including the Rolling Stones in the studio, the film is visually intercut with Eve Democracy (Wiazemsky) using graffiti which amalgamates organisations, corporations and ideologies. Godard also examines the role of the revolutionary within western culture. Although he believes western culture needs to be destroyed, it can only be done so by the rejection of intellectualisation. "There is only one way to be an intellectual revolutionary, and that is to give up being an intellectual"