British Sounds
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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"British Sounds (1970) is an experimental film by Jean-Luc Godard, there is a scene with an extended close-up of a woman's pubis, precisely when the female voice-over says: "Marxists have always stressed, when they talk about the subordination of women, that it’s part of the total, mutual devouring process called capitalism. They’ve said that capitalism forces people to eat each other…""--Sholem Stein |
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British Sounds is an hour-long 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. London Weekend Television refused to screen it owing to its controversial content, but it was subsequently shown with success in cinemas. Godard credited the film as being made by 'Comrades of the Dziga-Vertov group'.
