British Sounds
| British Sounds | |
|---|---|
 Opening titles | |
| Directed by | Jean-Luc Godard Jean-Henri Roger |
| Country of origin | France United Kingdom |
| Production | |
| Producers | Irving Teitelbaum Kenith Trodd |
| Editor | Elizabeth Kozmian (aka Christine Aya)[1] |
| Running time | 54 minutes |
| Production company | Kestrel Productions |
| Original release | |
| Release | 1969 |
British Sounds (also known as See You at Mao) is an hour-long avant-garde documentary film shot in February 1969 for television, written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Henri Roger, and produced by Irving Teitelbaum and Kenith Trodd.[2] It was produced during Godard's most outspokenly political period.[3] London Weekend Television refused to screen it owing to its controversial content,[1] but it was subsequently released in cinemas. Godard credited the film as being made by 'Comrades of the Dziga-Vertov Group'.[4]
Synopsis
The film opens with a long tracking shot of workers at an MG Cars manufacturing plant, with a voiceover containing quotes from the Communist Manifesto. Subsequent scenes depict a naked woman walking around a house with a voiceover from a Marxist feminist tract, a newsreader, representing the British bourgeoisie, delivering a reactionary rant interspersed with footage of workers, a meeting of Trotskyist trade unionists, students creating political posters against a soundtrack of parodies of songs by The Beatles. The film closes with footage of fists punching through Union Jacks.
References
- ^ a b Dawson, Jonathan (October 2005). "British Sounds". Senses of Cinema.
- ^ Roud, Richard (1968). Godard. Thames and Hudson. p. 187. ISBN 0-500-48010-9.
- ^ Buening, Michael. "British Sounds (1969)". AllMovie. Retrieved 27 July 2023.
- ^ "British Sounds on Vimeo (with Italian subtitles)". Vimeo. 11 December 2009.
External links
- British Sounds at Vimeo
- British Sounds at IMDb
- British Sounds at AllMovie
- British Sounds at Rotten Tomatoes