Notre Musique
by Jean-Luc Godard
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Actor: Jean-Christophe Bouvet, Nade Dieu, Rony Kramer, Sarah Adler, Simon EineDirector: Jean-Luc Godard
Brand: Genius
Editor: Jean-Luc Godard
Writer: Jean-Luc Godard
Cinematographer: Julien Hirsch
Producer: Alain Sarde
Producer: Ruth Waldburger
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); Arabic (Original Language); English (Original Language); French (Original Language), Unknown; Hebrew (Original Language); Serbo-Croatian (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 80 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-05-17
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Fox Lorber
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- Part poetry, part journalism, part philosophy, master filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard's Notre Musique is a witty and lyrical reflection on war through the ages. The film is structured into three Dantean Kingdoms: Hell, Purgatory and Heaven. The journey begins in Hell, represented by modern war and then moves to Purgatory, set in Sarajevo. Finally, Paradise is conceived as a small beach guarded by
Movie Reviews of Notre Musique
Movie Review: Great Godard yet leaves open questions
Summary: 5 Stars
It is difficult to see what makes this film great in the philosophic,it is great Godard nonetheless far more a technical master now interested in how events unfold seemlessly and at work in gradations of meanings (primarily,nouveau riche-middle class) but far from his early escapist anarchic days; the film utilizes Dante's :Divine Comedy: as a loose structural frame,movements; beginning with the "White noise"("Inferno" borrowed again) of gratuitous violence of the human spirit,the intellectual afraid of violence and all the instruments that mae it possible;bombers, F14 laying beautiful trails of red phosphorus gases,after-shocks is great visuals, although hundreds are killed in the process; we know violence is necessary,but actors here say it will remain corrosive,irreparable once begun, a permanent state of unhealing dimension no matter what place on the globe it is practiced, and it continues through today, what a legacy? simple violence from takes from Eisenstein's "Ivan the Terrible" to Vietnam, Chile circa 1973, WW2,lynchings,bodies flayed, and burnt,East Timor, Central America, you can choke on this list of places and images;but this is what preserves the neo-capitalist order,protection surveillance,information;the administered world; however the photography and textures are incredible and there is an irony there of presenting the grossest atrocities in beautiful/ugly visual takes,in short clipped bursts;moments of colorful richness, Godard might be saying "is this all that remains?", the aesthetic, well the academic Left have found the aesthetic a safe harbor to escape. But the philosophic backwardness of the globe is central to Godard's concerns for the human condition,people murdered with and without impunity,what has been torn and ruptured,the fragment, the breakable timbres of the West;and he gives an American Indian and a Spanish poet the space to further reveal what is wrong with the globe as he did 40 years ago, Nothing has changed. Here with the cab visits by a young Israeli journalist to war torn what was Yugoslavia, perhaps Tito the diplomat had something in bringing together these ethnic animosities in peace, at least to a point where one is not murdering the other in genocidic proportions.No writer in the Western press will ever admit that, and the West cannot even come near to resolving these post-Soviet problems,Gorbachev was depending upon the West for help while "perestroika" developed and only levels of opportunism resulted a rush by venture capital toward dispossessing the Eastern European masses; in fact it is better to keep divisions as they are,Neo-Cons will tell you as in the Israeli Palestinian conflict which is broached here in 'Purgatory'a transitional state to what? no one knows;more dispossessions and another dimension of backwardness one of the last Western vestiges of colonialism,where a Palestinian poet laments that the world is interested in the Jew, how they have survived, it is an enemy we cannot win against he claimed, as Israeli leaders still believe in the War of Independence, an unresolvable legacy left by the British. Too bad Israel remains simply an appendage to Washington's military establishment not concerned with its human rights abuses.Again something that interests Godard, the "wound" of the current state of the globe; yet he situates the Middle East in a distance as a metaphor in fragments for other places,and seems to want to expose what is wrong with the landscape of the West, and cannot see a way out of this impasse/ paradigm, except the final 'Paradise'a green field and forest, again the classical aesthetic at work with Washington as protectorate from evil.Here we see young teenagers throwing a ball around in bathing suits, an American soldier with a rifle sharing an apple, while the water slowly laps against the shore, beautifully,in peace in Paradise.
Summary of Notre Musique
Studio: Genius Products Inc Release Date: 06/19/2007 Run time: 80 minutes Rating: NrSimilar DVD Movies
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