We Blew It

We Blew It is a controversial and yet beautiful documentary road-movie that examines a confused, polarised and heated America through the lens of the 2016 Presidential election, with the help of some of the leading film directors of the 60s and 70s. In the 1960s and 70s, Hollywood taught America to revere the counter-culture; to relish in rock 'n' roll, free love and independence and above all to fight against the establishment and The Man. But in the span of two generations, as the U.S. elected a president who thrives on divisiveness and big business, it seems that those lessons have been all but forgotten. Somehow the nature of independence has morphed into something altogether different. What happened to those dreams of the 1960s and 70s? How did America go from Easy Rider to Donald Trump? Did key figures of the 1960s and 70s blow it and create the political polarisation of today? Director Jean-Baptiste Thoret (En ligne de mire) asks these momentous questions on a documentary road trip through the United States, from New Jersey to California, by speaking with people who lived through that golden age of film and social revolution, and then applies the answers to create a narrative that's greater than the history of one era. Shot in CinemaScope and featuring interviews with Michael Mann, Peter Bogdanovich, Tobe Hooper, Jerry Schatzberg, Bob Rafelson, and Michael Lang (co-founder of Woodstock) alongside ordinary Americans, We Blew It is a personal journey through the roots of American culture, meeting great filmmakers, iconic figures of the counter-culture and ordinary people - all trying to come to grips with the assertion that We Blew It.