Originally titled One Plus One, the film was re-edited and retitled by the producer, without Godard's permission. Ill-received by both critics and public on its release, it was re-evaluated by Andrew Hussey in The Guardian: “This is one of those rare and unsettling examples of a rock film, which has all the immediacy of reportage from a distant war-zone. . . . Godard . . . briefly left Paris for London in the wake of the Paris riots of May '68 with the aim of making a film about art, power and revolution. The Stones . . . were, as Godard saw it, perfect for the role of agents of anarchy in a movie whose stated aim was to 'subvert, ruin and destroy all civilized values.' The studio scenes are punctuated by a series of set pieces-an incoherent stew of Situationism and other Sixties stuff . . . Black Panthers . . . Maoist hippies . . . a female urban guerilla. . . . (A) snapshot of a far-off, lost world where rock music is still a redemptive and revolutionary force.”