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nvaroqua
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Notre musique (2004)
All I really want to say is that this is a beautiful movie.
All I really want to say is that this is a beautiful movie, but it seems like you have to write more, so here goes. I don't know, this movie does not exactly strike me as Godard's version of "international politics," as someone said in an earlier comment. Godard in the film (along with the audience) is notified of the protagonist's suicide while absentmindedly working on his garden. A purely political movie would not likely waste such an opportunity to reinforce its politics with images. This is either a really bad or really great political movie. As others have pointed out, when a student asks Godard about digital cameras' effect on the future of cinema, he just stares at us. What's going on here? Are these cases of Godard being disingenuous, trying to use his presence in front of the camera to lull us into a a belief that he has no agenda, that he is not really manipulating everything that is happening behind the camera, or is he just disinterested, above it all? No, it's a mistake to equate Godard's lack of answers with a lack of interest or passion, and Godard is not very inconspicuous behind the camera. There is an intensity to the (non)scenes. I'm admittedly a trusting person, and I certainly don't claim to understand everything said, but I was moved almost throughout the film. Can I be moved by pure form? Well, can't we be moved by music?