Notre Musique (2004)

Recommended

France/Switzerland

Feature Film

Original Title: Notre musique

Writer/Director: Jean-Luc Godard

Cinematographer: Julien Hirsch

Cast: Sarah Adler, Nade Dieu, Rony Kramer, Simon Eine, Jean-Christophe Bouvet, George Aguilar, Ferlyn Brass, Leticia Gutiérrez, Aline Schulmann, Jean-Luc Godard

Godard’s (thankfully) more sombre and reverent than usual film presents, in three parts, a provocative and surprisingly moving portrait of man’s inhumanity to man: Hell shows, in the form of archive clips, scenes of war and carnage; Purgatory follows several parties around a literary conference in Sarajevo, where people discuss war, occupation, martyrdom, and the like; and Heaven presents a vision of an afterlife guarded by US military forces. Iain.Stott