Notre musique
Wellspring Media | Release Date: November 24, 2004 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
77
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 19 Critic Reviews
Positive:
16
Mixed:
3
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
Visually sublime and intellectually dense, this is one of the extremely rare movies that prove cinema can be as complex and profound as the very greatest art works in any form. Read full review
100
Chicago TribuneMichael Wilmington
Though it's a sad, somber, deeply questioning work, it's done with a light, loving spirit. Read full review
90
Washington PostDesson Thomson
Notre Musique is really a poetic essay, masterfully intermixing the director's mournful-toned, philosophical narration with documentary and staged moments. Read full review
88
Boston GlobeTy Burr
Elegant, insistent movie -- a great gray filmmaker's finest in years. Read full review
83
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
Notre Musique is Godard's post-9/11 statement, a meditation on how war emerges from the eternal, and hypocritical, duality of human perception -- the sense that it's always ''the other'' who dies. Read full review
83
Portland OregonianShawn Levy
If film is an art, it's because it's possible for somebody to make films like this. Read full review
80
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
For one of the first times in his career Jean-Luc Godard has elected not to hector and harass his audience, and it seems to have paid off. Read full review
80
VarietyDerek Elley
Recognizably Godard with its playfulness and wordplays, but deeply human at the same time. Read full review
80
Village VoiceJ. Hoberman
Too touchy-feely for some hardcore Godardians, Notre Musique is the most lucid of the master's recent films. Read full review
80
The New York TimesManohla Dargis
Mr. Godard treads on dangerous ground by linking the historical suffering of Jews and the Palestinians, but his sympathy for both people is so manifest, his sense of history so deep, that the film defies reductive readings. Read full review
80
L.A. WeeklyScott Foundas
Strikes me as one of Godard's most accessible works - one in which the graying, stubbly maestro, who turns 74 today, presents himself and his ideas to the audience in a less combative way than he sometimes has in the past. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesKevin Thomas
A film of flowing, redemptive beauty and poetry, at once immediate yet classic in its simplicity of form. Read full review
80
Washington PostPhilip Kennicott
A film about war and reconciliation, is deeply Christian, a study in humility and the moral uncertainty at the core of the Christian message. Read full review
75
New York PostV.A. Musetto
It's a long way from the carefree days of "Breathless" and "Band of Outsiders," but then the world has changed since Godard made those movies 40 years ago. Read full review
75
Philadelphia InquirerCarrie Rickey
Like a piece of music, Godard structures his film in three movements. Read full review
70
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
Alternately accessible and obscure, the film is almost too rich to digest at one sitting, but even if experiencing this remarkable films means latching onto just a few of its myriad ideas, it's still a richly rewarding encounter. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubKeith Phipps
A sophomore film major would be lucky to get a passing grade with such material. Read full review
50
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
Notre Musique is a cry against war and man's inherent needs for tribalism and violence, a position that wouldn't start a good argument in a college cafeteria. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleRuthe Stein
Lumpy. Read full review
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