Soundtrack to a Coup d’État 2024 123movies

Watch: Soundtrack to a Coup d’État 2024 123movies, Full Movie Online – Jazz and decolonization are entwined in this historical rollercoaster that rewrites the Cold War episode that led musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach to crash the UN Security Council in protest against the murder of Patrice Lumu….
Plot: In 1960, United Nations: the Global South ignites a political earthquake, musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach crash the Security Council, Nikita Khrushchev bangs his shoe denouncing America’s color bar, while the U.S. dispatches jazz ambassador Louis Armstrong to the Congo to deflect attention from its first African post-colonial coup.
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	8.1/10 Votes: 273
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Incredible story but the documentary is too overstimulating for my liking
Watched this at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival.

I understand the main purposes and the importance of what the documentary is trying to explore and tell. While there are some wonderful graphic design presentation, conversations, and visual presentation, the 2 hour 30 minute runtime feels unjustified and the structure of the documentary feels messy.

Many of the themes and topics explored are interesting which themes of jazz, decolonization and the conflicts between the country is interesting. I enjoyed some of the musical sound choices and some of the discussions explored. But I found myself unable to fully invest to the story because it felt as if the filmmaker was creating a style over substance situation. Where certain aspects felt uncooked and a bit missing and it was focused too much on the technical aspects.

For 2 hours and 30 minutes, the documentary feels too stretched to be fully satisfied. Overall, good intentions but not for me.

Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
This documentary is a serious testament to the archivist’s art as it pieces together an impressive array of imagery of the great and the good of American Jazz and combines that with some intimate actuality of the turbulence ongoing in the Congo as it strived for independence. Why might anyone care about the future of an impoverished African nation that had all but bankrupted it’s “owner” – King Leopold II of Belgium? Well that’s because it holds enormous deposits of the uranium required by both the West and the Soviets – and that’s just the start of it’s reputedly $23 trillion worth of mineral assets. Emerging from the populace to lead this new country is Patrice Lumumba. He’s an articulate man who unlike so many who took their nations out of colonial-hood, is not constantly bedecked in medals and ribbons with armed men at his back. What we see over the next couple of hours uses a superb musical soundtrack from the likes of Nina Simone, Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis – you name it, to provide a backdrop to CIA shenanigans, petulant strops from Nikita Khruschev, accusatory comments from just about everyone from Malcolm X to Fidel Castro and some extremely cynical insights into the Eisenhower presidency’s approach to this man; to the problems he may bring or solve and to the precedents he was bound to set. As you’ll expect, this freedom fight is tied-in closely with the fight for desegregation and equal/human rights for African American people and it uses that platform to illustrate just how ineffective the US-dominated United Nations was at brokering anything akin to a peaceable solution that was in anyway neutral or beneficial to the populace of this vast territory. The secession of Katanga – where the mining was at it’s more lucrative and the privatisation of it’s principal enterprise ensured that the West still pulled the strings, sets the tone for the final phase of the history and it’s tragic conclusion. I knew some of this but I wasn’t aware of just how exploitatively the American administration used unwitting people, many globally recognised household hames and who were still treated as second-class citizens (if citizens at all) at home, to peddle a political message of brotherhood and unity in Africa and at just how effective these deceptions were whilst the CIA experimented with new ways of assassinating. There’s an arrogance here that’s writ large as the local population are treated with a casual disdain that makes your flesh crawl. Fans of jazz will love the accompaniment which mixes some characterful performances of the more famous pieces of music from the genre with some more specifically written and delivered themes that directly address the issues of slavery, exploitation and freedom that led to a protest within the impotent General Assembly chamber itself. It is curious that many of the criticisms levelled at the UN in the mid 1960s are just as valid today, and that little progress as been made changing the format that was established by world powers in the 1940s whose “permanent” roles embedded in the political infrastructure remain unaffected sixty years later. This isn’t a film about corporate greed, it’s one about political influence and domination and has been thoughtfully put together to open a hornet’s nest. Did you know that Dizzy Gillespie actually ran for US President?

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Original Language en
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Genre Documentary
Director Johan Grimonprez
Writer Johan Grimonprez
Actors Fidel Castro, Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis
Country Belgium, France, Netherlands
Awards 6 wins & 15 nominations
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