For Ever Mozart (1996)
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63% of critics liked it
(8 reviews) -
56% of users liked it
(850 ratings)
For Ever Mozart is an episodic film that follows a theater troupe from France attempting to put on a play in Sarajevo. Along their journey they are captured and held in a POW camp, and they call for help from their friends and relations in France. Director Jean-Luc Godard presents stories about this… More For Ever Mozart is an episodic film that follows a theater troupe from France attempting to put on a play in Sarajevo. Along their journey they are captured and held in a POW camp, and they call for help from their friends and relations in France. Director Jean-Luc Godard presents stories about this troop to ask how one can make art while slaughters like the one in Bosnia are taking place, and he throws in a strong critique of the European Union. For Ever Mozart is one of Godard's most disjointed and difficult films. Its stories sometimes seem to form a whole and at other times the links among them are unclear. One gets the impression that in each episode Godard attempts to start a film only to come to the conclusion that it is impossible to continue. It features some of the most beautiful shots of tanks in the cinema. ~ Louis Schwartz, Rovi
- Directed By
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Genres
- Art House & International, Special Interest
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Jul 4, 1997 Wide
Critic Reviews
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Stephen Holden, New York Times
If what you're expecting is an austere, lyrical essay that takes many tangents and requires serious deciphering, For Ever Mozart is a film to be savored.
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Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle
The fact that he creates such a haphazard structure for them, and neglects to develop his character or devise much of a plot, suggests that Godard is more interested in talking to himself than to his audience.
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Fernando F. Croce, CinePassion
Art can't hold back the world's horrors in Jean-Luc Godard's grave and quizzical fugue
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, TV Guide's Movie Guide
At times maddeningly obtuse and precipitously pretentious, at others remarkably moving and profound, this is, quite simply, a Godard film.
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Christopher Null, Filmcritic.com
Random and uninspired, the film gets a few points for its looks, but nada for its plot.
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Cast
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Madeleine Assas
as Camille
- Bérangère Allaux
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Ghalia Lacroix
as Dzamila
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Vicky Messica
as Vicky Vitalis The Director
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Harry Cleven
as Great Writer
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Frederic Pierrot
as Jerome
- Max Andre
- Michel Francini
- Sabine Bail
- Sylvie Herbert
