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Notre musique (
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.
The film's tripartite structure is apparently inspired by the
Divine Comedy of
Dante; the film's three segments are titled "Realm 1: Hell", "Realm 2: Purgatory", and "Realm 3: Heaven". The first segment is a relatively brief, non-narrative montage composed of war footage, propaganda footage, and battle scenes from fictional films, constantly intercut, and accompanied by classical piano. The second segment, which is relatively straightforwardly narrative, makes up the bulk of the film. It tells the story of two young women visiting a European arts conference in
Sarajevo: Judith Lerner (Sarah Adler), a journalist from
Tel Aviv, and Olga Brodsky (Nade Dieu), a French-speaking Jew of Russian descent. Judith interviews the poet
Mahmoud Darwish (played by himself) at the conference, and surveys the city, visiting the
Mostar bridge (where she reads
Emmanuel Levinas). Olga makes a digital-video film of the conference, is visited by her uncle Ramos Garcia (Rony Kramer), who is translating for the conference, and attends a lecture on film by Godard (who plays himself). The Spanish poet
Juan Goytisolo also appears as himself. The third segment, a brief postlude, shows Olga walking contemplatively through a quiet lakeside setting which appears to be guarded by American soldiers.
Critical reception
The film received generally positive reviews from critics. The review aggregator
Rotten Tomatoes reported that 65% of critics gave the film positive reviews, based on 52 reviews.
Metacritic reported the film had an average score of 77 out of 100, based on 19 reviews.
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