The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle (1980)
Country: GB
Technical: col 103m
Director: Julien Temple
Cast: The Sex Pistols, Malcolm McLaren, Stephen Phillip Jones
Synopsis:
A would-be documentary of the Sex Pistols, in which impresario Malcolm McLaren, with the connivance of director Temple, attempts to make out that punk rock was an elaborate hoax perpetrated by him on the Great British public to earn him a million pounds.
Review:
Unconvincing, and at times incomprehensible, in putting over its outlandish claims, the film, like its subject, is never less than offensive and does not possess the saving grace of wit, taste or even style. Moments of archive footage remain for social historians who might wish to be reminded of one of the nation's more embarrassing chapters.
Country: GB
Technical: col 103m
Director: Julien Temple
Cast: The Sex Pistols, Malcolm McLaren, Stephen Phillip Jones
Synopsis:
A would-be documentary of the Sex Pistols, in which impresario Malcolm McLaren, with the connivance of director Temple, attempts to make out that punk rock was an elaborate hoax perpetrated by him on the Great British public to earn him a million pounds.
Review:
Unconvincing, and at times incomprehensible, in putting over its outlandish claims, the film, like its subject, is never less than offensive and does not possess the saving grace of wit, taste or even style. Moments of archive footage remain for social historians who might wish to be reminded of one of the nation's more embarrassing chapters.
Country: GB
Technical: col 103m
Director: Julien Temple
Cast: The Sex Pistols, Malcolm McLaren, Stephen Phillip Jones
Synopsis:
A would-be documentary of the Sex Pistols, in which impresario Malcolm McLaren, with the connivance of director Temple, attempts to make out that punk rock was an elaborate hoax perpetrated by him on the Great British public to earn him a million pounds.
Review:
Unconvincing, and at times incomprehensible, in putting over its outlandish claims, the film, like its subject, is never less than offensive and does not possess the saving grace of wit, taste or even style. Moments of archive footage remain for social historians who might wish to be reminded of one of the nation's more embarrassing chapters.