BRITISH SOUNDS (1970) - ♦♦♦

Directed by - Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Henri Roger

Written by - Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Henry Roger

"After kickstarting modern cinema as we know it with his deeply influential BREATHLESS, and enjoying a legendary career as major exponent of the FRENCH NEW WAVE, JEAN-LUC GODARD took cinema to year zero, and worked extensively with the DZIGA VERTOV GROUP to make several Maoist and Marxist films. 

This is one of them, and one of the most famous ones of this particular period. BRITISH SOUNDS, also known as SEE YOU AT MAO is driven by the sounds of the British working class, and along with still images and minimal camera movements, it aims to show the stuggle of the British working class of the time. 

The ideas are focused and passionate, but the film's language feels mostly academic, rather than exciting and artistic like the works of DZIGA VERTOV, who inspired the name of the group. It is filled with speech and images that serve as a feature length AGITPROP. Thus, its tone is often aggressive and might be too indulgent and demanding for those uninterested in experimental political statements."

Documentary, UK