Synopsis
Divided into three “kingdoms” — Enfer (Hell), Purgatoire (Purgatory) and Paradis (Paradise) — Notre Musique is an indictment of modern times.
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Cast
- Sarah AdlerJudith Lerner
- Nade DieuOlga Brodsky
- Rony KramerRamos Garcia
- Jean-Christophe BouvetC. Maillard
- George AguilarIndian
- Ferlyn BrassHimself
- Leticia GutiérrezIndian
- Aline SchulmannSpanish Translator
- Jean-Luc GodardHimself
- Juan GoytisoloHimself
Recommendations
- 100
Christian Science Monitor
Visually sublime and intellectually dense, this is one of the extremely rare movies that prove cinema can be as complex and profound as the very greatest art works in any form. - 83
Entertainment Weekly
Notre Musique is Godard's post-9/11 statement, a meditation on how war emerges from the eternal, and hypocritical, duality of human perception -- the sense that it's always ''the other'' who dies. - 80
Chicago Reader
For one of the first times in his career Jean-Luc Godard has elected not to hector and harass his audience, and it seems to have paid off. - 80
Variety
Recognizably Godard with its playfulness and wordplays, but deeply human at the same time. - 80
Village Voice
Too touchy-feely for some hardcore Godardians, Notre Musique is the most lucid of the master's recent films. - 80
The New York Times
Mr. Godard treads on dangerous ground by linking the historical suffering of Jews and the Palestinians, but his sympathy for both people is so manifest, his sense of history so deep, that the film defies reductive readings. - 75
New York Post
It's a long way from the carefree days of "Breathless" and "Band of Outsiders," but then the world has changed since Godard made those movies 40 years ago. - 70
TV Guide Magazine
Alternately accessible and obscure, the film is almost too rich to digest at one sitting, but even if experiencing this remarkable films means latching onto just a few of its myriad ideas, it's still a richly rewarding encounter.
