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British Sounds (1969)

Director: Jean-Luc Godard

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From Time Out Film Guide

The film that was made for and then banned from London Weekend TV. Essentially a documentary, it's a genuine political artefact in which Godard contrives to assault the British sensibility with a series of images and provocations (the slogans flashed on the screen are sometimes humorous and always to the point). The parts where people just talk really work; when Ford Dagenham workers discuss the company-employee situation, the effect is simple and uncluttered but devastatingly effective. Sometimes, however, the control vanishes - the sequence with Essex students making posters, for instance - and this confirms the impression that revolution in Britain will only come from the industrial army who need it, not the middle class academics who play it.

Author: TE 0000-00-00 00:00:00

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Director: Jean-Luc Godard

Producer: Irving Teitelbaum, Kenith Trodd

Genre(s): Documentaries

Duration: 52 mins


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