• Producer(s):

    FILMS D'ICI (LES), ARTE FRANCE

  • Territories:

    Worldwide (except United States).

  • Production year:

    2013

  • Language(s):

    German, English, French

  • Rights:

    TV, DVD, NON-THEATRICAL, INTERNET, VOD

The writer Martin Amis is reputed for his caustic novels in which he dissects our contemporary world with a scalpel.

Martin Amis explores his feeling of being English, describing a country that has been traumatised by the loss of its colonial empire and international influence.
 
Thanks to treasures from the film archives of the British Film Institute and the BBC, and to former adverts and sketches, as well as specially shot images, this documentary examines the deep-seated reasons for the decline of his country, according to Amis: a chronic fascination for royalty, a fixation on social class, “a problem with pleasure” to use Amis’ expression, the violence of hooligans in football stadia, and fair-play on the cricket pitch.