Notre Musique December 4, 2004

"A few years ago I was sent some recordings... their music evoked a place to which we had to go. We followed them, a little like the star over the stable." Jean-Luc Godard's most recent work, a pensive, poetic treatise on warfare and the human spirit filmed largely in Sarajevo, is arranged into three "kingdoms"--hell, purgatory, and heaven. The central set-piece (purgatory) is a European conference on the book in which Godard brings together noted intellectuals with a few fictional characters, one of whom is Olga Lerner (Sarah Adler), an Israeli journalist, French and Jewish by birth, who has come to the conference to discuss her adopted country. Beautifully photographed and filled with references to literature, cinema, art, and music, this new work from Godard suggests, according to one reviewer, "a kind of optimism, at the very least evincing a faith in the enduring strength of words--seemingly the music of the title" (2004, 80 minutes). Washington premiere

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