Sunshine Coast FrenchFilmFestival
Sponsored by the: April 14th - 9th June
Soundtrack To A Coup D'Etat (France-Belguim) English narration.
Mon, 14 Oct
|Caloundra
Director Johan Grimonprez captures the moment when African politics and American jazz collided in this magnificent essay film, a riveting historical rollercoaster that illuminates the political machinations behind the 1961 assassination of Congo's leader Patrice Lu "Mind blowing." Harper's Bazaar.
Time & Location
14 Oct 2024, 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm
Caloundra, 2/11 Bulcock St, Caloundra QLD 4551, Australia
About the Event
Soundtrack To A Coup d'Etat film Trailer HERE
15+ 150Min
Director: Johan Grimonprez
US jazz collides with Cold War colonial crimes in this electrifying film examining the CIA’s complicity in state-sanctioned murder – and its use of popular music to cover its tracks. It's the documentary cousin to the Swedish biopic Hammarsskjold. Fight For Peace.
It’s 1960's and as the US civil rights movement swings into high gear, in Africa another movement is taking place: decolonisation. Among the 17 nations to achieve independence during the ‘year of Africa’ is the Congo. But only months after becoming the former Belgian colony’s first democratically elected prime minister, Patrice Lumumba is assassinated.
In an effort to deflect attention from the CIA’s apparent involvement in the coup against him, the US turns to jazz – sending Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington and more to the Congo as unwitting ‘ambassadors’. It does not go…