Second, Grimonprez uses jazz music as a crucial thread. There are two key places in the film where jazz converges with the true story of the 1960-1 crisis. The CIA was hyperactively involved across ...

Well, that is sometimes given the polite name “Congo Crisis”. The movie is a geopolitical ... It mostly unfolds in 1960 — the “Year of Africa” in the sunny phrase of the time — as ...