The timing could hardly have been better. Two months after Lindsay Anderson started shooting If.… in March 1968, Paris erupted in a month of rioting that nearly toppled De Gaulle’s government - and by the time the film was released nine months later, riots, insurrections and anti-war demos had flared everywhere from Prague to Chicago via Grosvenor Square, and the entrenched old order seemed to be tottering towards terminal meltdown. If ever a film had the zeitgeist by the tail...
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