Sympathy For The Devil was made at a time when The Rolling Stones were at the peak of their creative powers & Jean-Lux Godard who after making some of the great French New Wave cinema had taken a revolutionary political direction with his filmmaking. Possessing Godard's idiosyncratic style it can be viewed as two movies in one. In the first rock & roll superstars The Rolling Stones create their latest song ' Sympathy For The Devil' in a London studio as they compose material for their forthcoming ' Beggar's Banquet' album. In the second a series of abstract fictional vignettes Godard probes topics as diverse as race pornography & the irony of interviewing celebrities which features a unique demonstration by Black Power revolutionaries & a TV interview with one Eve Democracy about the relationship between culture & revolution. For many people the main attraction of Sympathy For The Devil is seeing the band (Mick Jagger Keith Richards Brian Jones Charlie Watts & Bill Wyman) take a loose outline of a song & turn it into a stirring fully realized creation. Beginning as a ballad the track gradually acquires a pulsating groove which gets Jagger into a rousing vocal display of soulful emotion that Godard is lucky enough to capture on film. Down the years the film has been seen in two versions & has been distributed both as Sympathy For The Devil & One Plus One this DVD now presents audiences with the opportunity to experience both versions.