Why anyone, given the choice, would prefer a producer's version of a movie to a director's escapes me.

Godard casts a much more subversive and wry eye on proceedings than might initially be apparent.

Godard's coy call to revolution is a must-see for rock music aficionados.

It's maddening because these scenes are intercut with bizarre, free-floating art pieces featuring black radicals reading revolutionary tracts in apocalyptic junkyard sets, among other almost abstract distractions.