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Notre musique ( English: Our Music) is a 2004 film directed by Jean-Luc Godard. The film reflects on violence, morality, and the representation of violence in film, and touches especially on past colonialism and the current Israeli–Palestinian conflict.
May 19, 2004 · Some film critics, like Stuart Klawans of "The Nation" magazine, Desson Thomson of "The Washington Post," and Manohla Dargis of "The New York Times," have hailed this latest effort from Godard, the undisputed giant of the French New Wave, in glowing terms.
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- Drama
- Jean-Luc Godard
- 2004-05-19
Notre musique est un film français réalisé par Jean-Luc Godard et sorti sur les écrans en mai 2004 . Synopsis. Ce film se compose de trois parties de longueurs inégales : « Royaume 1 - Enfer » est composée de diverses images de guerre, sans ordre chronologique ni historique.
Notre Musique consists of three interlinked films about genocide, the first and last of which are around ten minutes long. Of the last, 'Heaven', all that needs to be said is that it stands alongside Pasolini's Trilogy of Life as the finest ever cinematic evocation of Eden.
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- Avventura Films, TSR, Périphéria
- Jean-Luc Godard
Aeroplanes, tanks, battleships, explosions, gunfire, executions, populations in flight, devastated countryside, destroyed villages. All in black and white and in colour. Silent images, four sentences, four pieces of music. Purgatory: Contemporary Sarajevo, martyred like many others. Real and imaginary characters.
On the occasion of the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s major retrospective, a smorgasbord of Godard posters. Divided into three “kingdoms” — Enfer (Hell), Purgatoire (Purgatory) and Paradis (Paradise) — Notre Musique is an indictment of modern times.
“Notre Musique” is structured into three Dantean Kingdoms: “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.
