Music fans are waiting for the Cannes premier of the of the documentary Stones in exile directed by Steven Kizhaka. Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Charlie Watts became producers of the film themselves. A video is featuring the record of the album Exile on the Main Street which many critics have called one of the greatest rock album in history. The recording took place at a critical moment of the band – young skint bums were hiding from the persecution of the press and the police because of their notorious problems with drugs and were on the verge of financial collapse.

Therefore the band went to the south of France to a small town near Nice where Keith Richards rented a villa of the nineteenth century under the name Nellcôte. The team used to work round the clock in the mansion staying in complete isolation from reality, waking up and falling asleep with the guitars and microphones in their hands. By the way one of the frequent guests of the villa was well-known writer William Burroughs. “Stones in Exile’ are a great example of documentary depicting not only the story of one of the most important music event but the mood and character of those screwball times.