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77 out of 100

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9.4 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 12 Ratings

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  • Starring: Nade Dieu, Rony Kramer, Sarah Adler
  • Summary: Part poetry, part journalism, part philosophy, Jean-Luc Godard's Notre Musique is a timeless meditation on war as seen through the prisms of cinema, text and image. (Wellspring Media)

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 16 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 19
  3. Negative: 0 out of 19
  1. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Michael Wilmington
    100
    Though it's a sad, somber, deeply questioning work, it's done with a light, loving spirit.
  2. Christian Science Monitor
    Reviewed by: David Sterritt
    100
    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.
  3. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Jack Mathews
    50
    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.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 8
  3. Negative: 0 out of 8
  1. Amy
    10
    I give Maestro Godard a 10-infinity for this masterpiece. Forever the experimentalist, he creates a symphonic fragment that also seems like a visual jaunt through Faulkner's Sound and Fury. It is a provocative examination of reality and something else. We are left to decide where we are.… Expand
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  2. NigelD.
    10
    Sublime, dense and illuminating. Godard's creates a symphonic fugue of parallels and associations, dualities and ironies, struggling towards the light.… Expand
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  3. JaredSS
    9
    Beautiful...left me speechless, literally.
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