Legendary French-Swiss filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard’s epic mishmash of fragmented vignettes and song comes to the Belcourt as part of the Music City Mondays series. Sympathy for the Devil (previously called One Plus One), is the result of Godard’s access to The Rolling Stones’ 1968 recording sessions. The director sandwiched footage of the band recording and re-recording “Sympathy for the Devil” amid snippets of footage — black militants reading Amiri Baraka, a woodland press conference, patrons milling about a Marxist bookstore — creating an extended music video that speaks to the explosive political and social milieu of the late ’60s. Viewers are unlikely to enjoy the mishmash if they seek a traditional narrative arc. Just enjoy the music, and let Godard’s chaotic, hallucinatory revelry wash over you. ERICA CICCARONE
Sympathy for the Devil (One Plus One)
