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Sympathy for the Devil
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Sympathy for the Devil

Sympathy for the Devil

One Plus One
Jean-Luc Godard
United Kingdom
1968
110 min
Top 10
Tickets & Times
Synopsis

In 1968, Jean-Luc Godard was regarded as an audacious and brilliant filmmaker who was turning cinema upside down. In the turbulent days of May that year he was a Maoist oracle mounting the barricades. Then he moved to swinging London to shoot his first English-language film: 1 + 1.

His 1967 film Weekend, which ends provocatively with the words “FIN DE CINEMA,” was highly acclaimed, but 1 + 1 got a critical reception, with philosopher Guy Debord describing it as “a film from an idiot”. Audiences stayed away in droves, both from that version and the one released by the British producers as Sympathy for the Devil, which took its title from the classic Rolling Stones track whose fascinating genesis this film captures.

The Stones rehearsals are intercut with Black Power texts, footage of Anne Wiazemsky roaming the streets with a graffiti spray can, and fictional scenes in which sex shop customers pay for porn magazines by hitting Maoists and doing a Hitler salute. “1 + 1 isn’t 2, it’s just one plus one,” asserted the film’s creator, as if to clarify his standpoint on this blistering cocktail of aphorisms, political statements and rock mythology.

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Tickets & Times
Tue, november 19
22:00 – 23:55
Rialto De Pijp: Bovenzaal

Fri, november 22
19:30 – 21:40
ITA: Rabozaal
Credits
110 min
color
DCP
Spoken languages: English
Director
    Jean-Luc Godard
    Jean-Luc Godard
Production
    Eleni Collard,
    Michael Pearson,
    Iain Quarrier,
    Cupid Productions
    Eleni Collard,
    Michael Pearson,
    Iain Quarrier,
    Cupid Productions
Cinematography
    Anthony B. Richmond
    Anthony B. Richmond
Editing
    Ken Rowles
    Ken Rowles
World Sales
    Richard Walker
    Richard Walker
Screening copy
    ABKCO Music & Records, Inc.
    ABKCO Music & Records, Inc.
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