Babylon (1980)
- Directed by
- Franco Rosso
- Genre
- drama film, hood film
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Runtime
- 1h 35m
- Rating
- 6.9 of 10 from 43 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A young man in Brixton runs a sound system and faces harassment from the police and racial hostility. The film shows the daily struggle and rising tension in his community.
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What happens
Babylon is a 1980 British drama film directed by Franco Rosso. Written by Franco Rosso and Martin Stellman, it is an incendiary portrait of racial tension and police brutality set in Brixton, London. The film, anchored by Dennis Bovell’s propulsive score, is partly based on Bovell’s false imprisonment for running a Jamaican sound system, Sufferer’s Hi Fi, in the mid-1970s. Produced by Gavrik Losey and the National Film Finance Corporation, the film is regarded as a classic. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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