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NOTRE MUSIQUE |
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Director:
Jean-Luc Godard
Screenplay: Jean-Luc Godard
Cast:
Judith Lerner: Sarah Adler
Olga Brodsky: Nade Dieu
Ramos Garcia: Rony Kramer
Ferlyn Brass: himself
Ambassador: Simon Eine
C. Maillard: Jean-Christophe Bouvet
Awards:
Best Film, San Sebastian International Film Festival (2004)
Running time: 80'
Year of production: France - Switzerland, 2004
Rating: Not rated
Gauge: 35mm, DVD (color)
Distributor: New Yorker Films
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“…
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.”
Manohla Dargis, The New York Times |
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Part poetry,
part journalism, part philosophy, Jean-Luc Godard’s
Notre Musique is a timeless meditation on war as seen through
the prisms of cinema, text and image. Largely set at a literary
conference in Sarajevo, the film draws heavily from the Bosnian
war, but also on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, the brutal
treatment of Native Americans, and the legacy of the Nazis.
Godard works from Dante’s template and splits his vision
into three panels: “Hell,” “Purgatory”
and “Heaven.” In the film, real-life literary
figures (including Arab poet Mahmoud Darwish and Spanish writer
Juan Goytisolo) intermingle with actors, and documentary meshes
with fiction. The film also follows the parallel stories of
two Israeli Jewish women: Judith is drawn to the light, Olga
is drawn toward darkness. Through evocative language and images,
Godard explores a series of conflicting forces: life and death,
light and dark, reality and imagination, criminals and victims,
positive and negative, good and bad. These opposing movements
are eternal. They are the two faces of truth. They are our
music.
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