Notre musique

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Notre Musique

Directed by	Jean-Luc Godard
Produced by	Alain Sarde Ruth Waldburger
Written by	Jean-Luc Godard
Starring	Sarah Adler Nade Dieu Jean-Luc Godard Ronny Kramer Georges Aguilar
Cinematography	Jean-Christophe Beauvallet Julien Hirsch
Release date(s)	May 19, 2004
Running time	80 min.
Country	Switzerland France
Language	French Arabic English Hebrew Serbo-Croation Spanish
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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 Israel-Palestine 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.