Bande à Part (1964), dir. Jean-Luc Godard

(Source: nouvellecinema)

transpondster:

Paris, May 1968

Slogans and graffiti in the streets:

• The more you consume, the less you live. Commodities are the opium of the people.
• Abolish copyrights: sound structures belong to everyone.
• L’ennui est contre-révolutionnaire. (Boredom is counter-revolutionary.)
• L’imagination prend le pouvoir! (Imagination takes power!)
• Soyez réalistes, demandez l’impossible. (Be realistic, ask the impossible.)^[11]
• Prenez vos désirs pour la réalité. (Take your desires for reality.)
• On achète ton bonheur. Vole-le. (They are buying your happiness. Steal it.)
• Le patron a besoin de toi, tu n’as pas besoin de lui. (The boss needs you, you don’t need him.)
• L’été sera chaud! (Summer will be hot!)
• On ne revendiquera rien, on ne demandera rien. On prendra, on occupera. (We will beg for nothing. We will ask for nothing. We will take, we will occupy.)
• In a society that has abolished every kind of adventure the only adventure that remains is to abolish the society.
• Sous les pavés, la plage. (Under the paving stones, the beach.)
• Vivre sans temps mort et jouir sans entrave. (Live without wasted time and enjoy without hindrance.)
• Warning: ambitious careerists may now be disguised as “progressives.”
• I love you!!! Oh, say it with paving stones!!!^[12]
• Under 21? [Picture of a brick] Here is your ballot!