"Rock and roll, drugs, and sex, in that order!" Anita Pallenberg, famous ex of Rolling Stone Keith Richards, describing life in the South of France in 1972.
At the end of the 60's the Rolling Stones were at a turning point: hounded by the press, battling drug busts, and facing possible financial ruin. The band threw down the gauntlet and decamped to the south of France to begin the most arduous recording sessions of their entire careers for an album that, in time, came to be regarded as one of the greatest rock and roll albums ever made; "Exile on Main St."
Featuring a treasure-trove of rare and never-before-seen film (including Robert Frank's "Cocksucker Blues" outtakes) and photos (from Dominique Tarle, Jim Marshall & Ethan Russell), new interviews with the band and some of the men and women who bore witness to the album's creation, STONES IN EXILE is a heady time-travel trip back to the summer of 1972 that bears witness to a vivid moment in rock and roll history.
"If an award were to be given at Cannes for the audience's favorite film, it just might go to director Stephen Kijak's Stones in Exile." — David Bourgeois, Movieline
"Under the astute direction of Stephen Kijak "Stones in Exile" vividly re-creates the professional circumstances as well as the emotional mind-set of the band at the time...the documentary lays down a pulsating take on summer of '71 (and) now, nearly 40 years after that summer of drugs and discontent, sets the gospel about what really transpired and how the Stones turned madness into music." — The Hollywood Reporter
"Shines a light on Exile's dark mystery. It lets you crack open the basement door and look a little closer inside, it lets you live down there with the Stones as they boogied and burned and thrashed their way out of exile." — Entertainment Weekly
Executive Producers: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts
Producers: John Battsek & Victoria Pearman
Director: Stephen Kijak
Editor: Ben Stark
Director of Photography: Grant Gee
Co-executive producers: Jane Rose, Joyce Smyth, Sherry Daly
Executive Producer for Passion Pictures: Andrew Ruhemann
Co-producer: George Chignell
A Passion Pictures/M Street Production
World Premiere May 2010
Directors' Fortnight Cannes
Executive Producers: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts
Producers: John Battsek & Victoria Pearman
Director: Stephen Kijak
Editor: Ben Stark
Director of Photography: Grant Gee
Co-executive producers: Jane Rose, Joyce Smyth, Sherry Daly
Executive Producer for Passion Pictures: Andrew Ruhemann
Co-producer: George Chignell
A Passion Pictures/M Street Production
World Premiere — May 2010
Directors' Fortnight Cannes
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