British Sounds

British Sounds (1970)

Jean-Luc Godard brings his firebrand political cinema to the UK, exploring the revolutionary signals in late '60s British society. Constructed as a montage of various disconnected political acts (in line with Godard's then appropriation of Soviet director Dziga Vertov's agitprop techniques), it combines a diverse range of footage, from students discussing The Beatles to the production line at the MG factory in Oxfordshire, burnished with onscreen political sloganeering.

Date of release
1970-05-21
TMDB
5.2 / 10 (28)
Runtime
52m
Genres
Documentary
Director
Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Henri Roger

Interesting facts

British Sounds 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. It was produced during Godard's most outspokenly political period. London Weekend Television refused to screen it owing to its controversial content, but it was subsequently released in cinemas. Godard credited the film as being made by 'Comrades of the Dziga-Vertov Group'.

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