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ANOTHER MASTER PIECE FROM JEAN LUC GOD...

posted 19 years ago by naser_forughi
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ABSOLOUTELY MASTERPIECE, WHO CAN TELL IT'S NOT? WITH OUT ANY DOUBT, HE IS THE GOD OF CINEMA, ALWAYS, FOREVER!

"The cinema was dead after 9/11!"

[–] rawkus1167 19 years ago

I agree! This movie is a masterpiece and easily his best work since "Historie(s) Du Cinema", his massive video essay that is yet to get a proper release in this country. Godard once said that cinema can be measured from Griffith to Kiarostami, but I would argue cinema can only be measured from Godard and on. He is truly the greatest artist of the cinema since Orson Welles.

[–] bipolarclown-1 19 years ago

I also agree. I didn't enjoy "In Praise of Love" as much as I did this one. I'm not sure if godard is the greatest artist of cinema since Welles, but he is definitely one of the masters who still continues to experiment and breathe fresh air into the cinema.

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[–] adamwarlock 17 years ago

Who says it's not? I do. Boring, pretentionious crap!! He stopped being a filmmaker in the 60s. He is now an "anti-film" maker. He wants us to forget what cinema is & has been, fine idea but I need back the time wasted on his films from the 70s to now. He isn't going to change anything by making dozens of boring films. Cinema is viseral, it needs some kind of action & flow. Even a slow paced film has some of this. I can't understand the later David Lynch films either but they are cinematic, this film isn't.

[–] cbrown11 16 years ago

ugh, he stopped making movies in the 60's? im not sure what anti-film maker means but if it means making films like this one, in praise of love, passion, and oh woe is me, i wish more directors were anti-film makers.

I don't know if I am unhappy because I am not free, or I am not free because I am unhappy.

[–] eeemail-1 16 years ago

Anti-Hollywood-Type-Films maybe. I loved this. I'm new to Godard. I did Breathless, then jumped forward to this one. Strange and beautiful, and I cannot wait to view it again. (Petit Soldat just now!) :)

Darren Skuja

[–] minalex 17 years ago

I wouldn't say so. Some parts are very sutisfying, but the whole thing usually does not work. Of course, Godard continues experimenting and that is good.

[–] Kinematico 16 years ago

I loved this film. Its poetry and its message.

Something good for me is that I watched "Notre Musique" the day after I watched "Les carabiniers". So I could compare the differences and similarities between two anti-war movies by Godard separated by 40 years of life experience

The technique from both movies is quite different, also the "feeling" and the pace of the film. But the message hasn't changed, the war is condemned in both movies. But in "Les carabiniers" Godard is mocking wars, war movies, and war-mongering people. In contrast "Notre Musique" is a deep reflection on war, life, death and its meaning.

Everything is seen from the "hell" (the war itself); "purgatory", a serie of episodes about the consequences of war, it's reasons or unreasons, and a hopeless feeling; and finally "Heaven", which is a placid place where everything seems perfect and peaceful, but ironically this "heaven" is kept by US marines. Was Godard mocking the so called "pax americana"?

Poetical, magical, deep and lyrical. That's Godard

Notre Musique.

[–] CBene 15 years ago

I watched Notre Musique right after For Ever Mozart, it was quite the double feature.

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[–] polysicsarebest 15 years ago

masterpiece indeed..