Soundtrack To A Coup d'Etat (2024)

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Synopsis

Dir: Johan Grimonprez. French/English/Dutch/Russian-language Documentary. A look at the involvement of American jazz musicians in the decolonization of Africa during the Cold War and how they disrupted a UN Security Council meeting in protest of the murder of Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba.

Content elements

• One use of a variation of the sexual expletive in a non-sexual context; infrequent use of cursing, profanity, vulgar expressions, and ethno-cultural slurs
• Frequent references to and descriptions of war, civil unrest, imprisonment and torture, slavery, murder, genocide, and sexual violence including involving children - some detail
• Infrequent depictions of hand-to-hand, weapons, and gun violence including an execution, in a war and civil unrest context - little blood and detail
• Infrequent depiction of tobacco and alcohol use in a recreational context

Thematic elements

• The Decolonization of Africa
• Art and politics
• Social justice

Classification rationale

Rated PG for mature subject matter, coarse language, violence, and substance use

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