OUR MUSIC

For Jean-Luc Godard sound in film has always been as important as the image. His collages amount to masterly tapestries which interweave visuals, text and music with a cohesion and referential intensity unparalleled in contemporary film. The same is true of his latest work, which he shot on video in Sarajevo. NOTRE MUSIQUE is a stream of ideas that takes the inner conflicts of the Balkan states as a basis for reflection upon the antagonism between perpetrators and victims. In its political acuteness and disdain for aesthetic compromise, hisfi lmic triptych of the three “Kingdoms” (Hell, Purgatory, Paradise) of human inadequacy offered renewed confirmation of Godard’s status as Grand Old Man of Nouvelle Vague.