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Privilege (BluRayDVD, 2011)

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In a totalitarian future, Steven Shorter (Paul Jones) is a rock'n'roll sensation packaged to unite the masses and offer sanitized rebellion. But an encounter with a beautiful painter (Jean Shrimpton) directs him on a course to turn the tables on his handlers in a surprising way. Peter Watkins (THE WAR GAME) directs this caustic satire on pop culture and corporate control that was alternately praised and excoriated upon its initial release.

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ProducerJohn Heyman

EAN5035673011072

eBay Product ID (ePID)110664983

Product Key Features

ActorPaul Jones, Jean Shrimpton

Film/TV TitlePrivilege

DirectorPeter Watkins

LanguageEnglish

Run Time138 Mins

FormatBluraydvd

Release Year2011

FeaturesOriginal Privilege trailer\THE DIARY OF AN UNKNOWN SOLDIER (Peter Watkins, 1959, 17 mins)\THE FORGOTTEN FACES (Peter Watkins, 1961, 19 mins)\Extensive illustrated booklet with essays by Peter Watkins, film historian Robert Murphy, and Watkins specialist John Cook.

GenreDrama, General

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs2

Certificate15

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom

Additional InformationAfter directing several extraordinary documentaries for the BBC, including the award-winning THE WAR GAME and CULLODEN, Peter Watkins made his first dramatic feature with this flawed but striking film about Steven Shorter (Paul Jones), a pop singer in a future society--where entertainment is controlled by a totalitarian government--who is packaged to unite the masses and offer sanitized rebellion. Shorter's music and image are used to channel the impulses of rebellious youth; in one concert sequence, the crowd watches him sing a plaintive plea for love and understanding while locked in a cage surrounded by police officers armed with clubs. While Shorter is remarkably popular, he's also living a life created for him by the government, which Steven knows is a sham. When Shorter's handlers decide to revamp his image into that of an obedient, religious boy, he rebels, to his peril. Model Jean Shrimpton made her film debut here as an artist commissioned to paint a portrait of Shorter.PRIVILEGE later became something of a cult film; one of the film's admirers was rock poet Patti Smith, who recorded one of 'Steven Shorter''s songs, 'Set Me Free', on her 1978 album EASTER.

ScreenwriterPeter Watkins, Johnny Speight

CinematographerPeter Suschitzky

Sound sourceDolby Digital

Movie/TV TitlePrivilege

EditorJohn Trumper