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Sarah Adler, Nade Dieu, Jean-Luc Godard, Ronny Kramer, Georges Aguilar ... see more see more... , Leticia Gutierrez , Ferlyn Brass , Simon Eine , Jean-Christophe Bouvet , Elma Dzanic , Juan Goytisolo , Mahmoud Darwich , Jean-Paul Curnier , Pierre Bergounioux , Gilles Pecqueux , Rony Kramer , Aline Schulmann , George Aguilar

Legendary French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard once again poses a number of provocative questions about art, politics, and the nexus point between them in this drama in three acts, "Hell," "Purgatory," an... read more read more...d "Paradise." After a collage of film clips illustrate a meditation on the nature of war and conflict in society, Godard introduces his central set piece, in which a group of authors, artists, and noted thinkers gather for a symposium taking place in the battle-scarred city of Sarajevo. Olga Brodsky (Nade Dieu) is a young journalist who is French and Jewish by birth and Israeli by choice; she has come to discuss the conflict between her adopted nation and Palestine with some of the many notables in attendance, in particular a celebrated Palestinian author. As Olga wrestles with issues of conflict, identity, and culture along with others at the conference, one of the participants, Jean-Luc Godard, points out the frustrating similarities between the grammar of cinema and human nature, and posits the notion that it's the essential differences of the peoples of the world, rather than their similarities, which are at the root of our culture. Notre Musique was a prizewinner at the 2004 San Sebastián International Film Festival, where it was named Film of the Year. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

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Unrated, 1 hr. 20 min.

Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard

Release Date: December 3, 2004

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DVD Release Date: May 17, 2005

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  • sanjurosamurai
    March 9, 2010
    sanjurosamurai
    unfortunately this film is another example of godards style during this late part of his career over the past 30 years where he is sacrificing coherent story for stylistic elements, despite the fact that early in his career he was able to do both well. having said that, this is ... read morea much better example of this sort of filmmaking than godards 80's films. rather than a strait forward story this film plays out more like cultural and philosophical snap shots, and the flow of the film was helped out quite a bit by the influence of dante on the three act structure. i still miss godards dialogue and story telling mastery of the 1960's, but this is a great film for thinking through the world and nature of humanity.
  • gator681
    March 8, 2006
    gator681
    [font=Century Gothic]Jean-Luc Godard's "Notre Musique" consists of three parts. "Hell" is a ten-minute long prologue consisting of a montage of violent images from cinema and real life.(Very reminiscient of Chris Marker, by the way.) The main section of the movie, "Purgatory", ... read moretakes place in Sarajevo(with a surprisingly large American Indian population) where an Israeli journalist, Olga(Sarah Adler), has just arrived. The third section is an epilogue, named "Paradise".[/font]
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    [font=Century Gothic]"Notre Musique" pretty much dispenses with any kind of character development or story and simply floats a whole bunch of free-floating ideas. The most intelligible of these involves those mentioned by Olga about Sarajevo being a possible model of peace(the notion that two very different groups of people can co-exist peacefully) for the Middle East. [/font]
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  • Cinema101
    November 24, 2009
    Cinema101
    9/10
    Quite a melding of genres and styles, this will get you thinking for hours upon hours after you've seen it.
  • jes25924
    June 30, 2008
    jes25924
    Was really the best film of 2004 and I am a bit shocked that I heard as little as I did about it. Like The Divine Comedy, the film is broken into three parts, Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradise except the realms of the afterlife are here used as politi...(read more)...(read more)ca... read morel metaphors. The Inferno is ten minutes of images of war from all of film history and some stock footage, Purgatory is the "story" part of the film about a meeting of artists, thinkers, and journalists in bombed out Sarajevo for a conference, and Paradise is a beautiful impressionistic beach resort guarded by US Marines. The dialogue is fairly oblique and stilited, but thats just how Godard rolls. If you can keep down the little reactionary who lives inside us all anytime we sense that dreaded word "pretentiou..", than you may find yourself moved by the end, moved in a way Godard has not moved anything in quite awhile.

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Desson Thomson
May 20, 2005
Desson Thomson, Washington Post

This film, which awakens your inner philosopher and encourages it to breathe, may not be an experience for everyone; if only it were. Full Review

Chris Vognar
April 28, 2005
Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News

There's plenty here to unpack, most of it regarding modern malaise, and the rewards are proportionate to the amount of work you want to put in. Full Review

Carrie Rickey
February 24, 2005
Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer

Hardly a director alive possesses Godard's eye for dynamic, inner-lit old-masterly compositions.

Jonathan Rosenbaum
January 28, 2005
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader

Jean-Luc Godard has had a tendency to be combative and obscure. He's a lot calmer and steadier in his latest feature. Full Review

Ruthe Stein
January 28, 2005
Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle

A lumpy mix of real-life and fictional events that shows age hasn't diminished the famed filmmaker's zeal to experiment. Full Review

Michael Wilmington
January 27, 2005
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune

It will mean much more to those familiar with his work. But those moviegoers will experience intense pleasure in watching a great innovator at a personal high point. Full Review

Colin Covert
January 13, 2005
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune

A glaringly obvious message delivered in willfully opaque style. Full Review

Ty Burr
December 30, 2004
Ty Burr, Boston Globe

An intensely felt, quietly beautiful elegy to 20th-century Europe -- to the Europe of wars -- and to the human need to create enemies. Full Review

Kevin Thomas
December 3, 2004
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times

A film of flowing, redemptive beauty and poetry, at once immediate yet classic in its simplicity of form. Full Review

Andrew Sarris
December 2, 2004
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer

Mr. Godard hasn't earned the right to take the mantle of Jewishness upon himself as if it were some sort of Halloween mask. Full Review

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