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Sympathy for the Devil (1968)  link to Sympathy for the Devil on IMDb  

Number: 603

poster Sympathy for the Devil

IMDb Rating:
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6.4/10 (2156 votes)

Also known as: ONE PLUS ONE

Country: UK, 100 minutes

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Music, Documentary

Director(s): Jean-Luc Godard

Storyline:
Godard's documentation of late 1960s Western counter-culture, examining the Black Panthers, referring to works by LeRoi Jones and Eldridge Cleaver. Other notable subjects are the role of news media, the mediated image, a growing technocratic society, women's liberation, the May revolt in France and the power of language. Cutting between three 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"

Cast:
Mick Jagger (as Himself - The Rolling Stones), Keith Richards (as Himself - The Rolling Stones), Charlie Watts (as Himself - The Rolling Stones), Bill Wyman (as Himself - The Rolling Stones), Anne Wiazemsky (as Eve Democracy)

Medium: Unknown,

Loaned: No

Aspect ratio: 1.66:1