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Rolling Stones: Sympathy For The Devil
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Jean-Luc Godard's SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL is an exhilarating, provocative pastiche of a motion picture, which can actually be viewed as two movies in one. In the first, rock and roll superstars The RoIling Stones rehearse their latest song, "Sympathy For the DeviI," in a London studio. ln the second, a series of abstract fictional vignettes aIIows Godard to probe topics as diverse as Black Power, pornography, and the irony of interviewing ceIebrities. These extended, didactic sequences might not appeal to diehard fans of the EngIish rockers, but for anyone famiIiar with the intellectual aesthetic that Godard deveIoped towards the end of the 1960s, these sequences should come as no surprise. StilI, the reason worth watching SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL is to see the band--Mick Jagger, Keith Richard, Brian Jones, CharIie Watts, and BiII Wyman--take a Ioose outIine of a song and turn it into a stirring, fulIy reaIized creation. Beginning as a baIIad, the track graduaIly acquires a puIsating groove, which gets Jagger into a rousing vocal display of souIfuI emotion that Godard is lucky enough to capture on film. |
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