Privilege

Satire set in the future in England has the government and church using the mass appeal of rock music to control the nation's youth. Paul Jones (one-time singer with the Manfred Mann group) plays the rock idol manipulated to change his violent, rebellious public image to one of a regular churchgoer. After feeling himself pulled apart, Jones revolts--with the urging of artist/girlfriend Jean Shrimpton, one of the most famous models of the 1960s--against the authorities and his followers, putting them all down. Director Peter Watkins, whose grim mockumentary THE WAR GAME (1965) was first commissioned by the BBC then banned by it before going on to win an Oscar, blends ...