British Sounds ( See You at Mao )

British Sounds (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: See You at Mao
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Italian ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Italian ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Italy ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
164 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1970 - 1971 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )
Italy ( Italy, Greece )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Groupe Dziga Vertov
Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Henri Roger

Written By:
Groupe Dziga Vertov
Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Henri Roger

Actors:
Vera Chytilová ..... Herself
Jean-Luc Godard
Cristiana Tullio-Altan ..... Paola Taviani
Paolo Pozzesi ..... Father / Lecturer / Policeman / Porter
Jerome Hinstin ..... Young man
Anne Wiazemsky ..... Store clerk
Jean-Henri Roger

Synopsis:

***ATTENTION***This DVD contains 3 films: British Sounds, Pravda & Lotte In Italia - British Sounds contains English audio; Pravda & Lotte In Italia contain French & Italian audio only***British Sounds (1970)
The main idea of British Sounds is exactly the soundtrack; the images are primarily still, with minimal camera movement: mostly tracks and pans. British Sounds is didactic and academic, but not without artistic merit, particularly the use of red and the jump-cutting fists that punch through the British flag repeatedly.

Pravda (1970)
Pravda was filmed in Czechoslovakia on 16mm. It's one of the films Godard made with the Groupe Dziga Vertov - a Marxist film about the political situation after the '68 revolution. Basically, it is an hour's worth of montage of very interesting documentary images with voice-over. One memorably Godardian moment is when a man is shown speaking Czech and the narrator doesn't translate - he just says 'If you don't understand Czech, you better start learning'.

Struggle in Italy (1971)
The film reveals how and why a supposedly revolutionary Italian girl has in fact fallen prey to bourgeois ideology.

British Sounds (1970)
Jean-Luc Godard made the hour-long 1969 experimental documentary British Sounds also known as See You at Mao for London Weekend TV in 1969.

Pravda (1970)
The setting of the film is Czechoslovakia after the Soviet invasion of 1968. In an imaginary conversation in which they attack Soviet revisionism, narrators Vladimir and Rosa (Vladimir Ilyich Lenin and Rosa Luxemburg) discuss, among other topics, the evolution of Communism, the state of the proletariat, and the problems of bureaucracy. The images in the film are dominated by the color red; the recurring visual metaphor is a red rose, which is finally destroyed. The film ends with a view of a truck moving toward the left and flying a red flag while a revolutionary song is played. However, since the camera is tracking left, the red flag disappears to the right in the final scene.

Struggle in Italy (1971)
Poses the question of what constitutes revolutionary struggle, focusing on the day-to-day life of a woman militant. Paola is an Italian student of bourgeois extraction, but engaged in progressive ideas and action. The film shows, in the form of an essay on dialectical materialism, the struggle between idealism and Marxism in the mind and deeds of Paola.

British Sounds (1970)
The main idea of British Sounds is exactly the soundtrack; the images are primarily still, with minimal camera movement: mostly tracks and pans. British Sounds is didactic and academic, but not without artistic merit, particularly the use of red and the jump-cutting fists that punch through the British flag repeatedly. The film has six parts, including the famous ten-minute track through an auto assembly line and a four-minute shot of a woman's nude torso; it is also filled with speech, whether it's a text from Engels read aloud or a newscaster talking about the necessities of burning women and children. A real agit-prop film, but, as Godard said about the later Vladimir and Rosa, also 'a time piece.'

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 25 January, 2013.

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