For Ever Mozart (1996)

63% of critics liked it
(8 reviews)
57% of users liked it
(832 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

Rating, Runtime: Unrated, 1 hr. 24 min.
Directed By: Jean-Luc Godard
Genres: Art House & International, Special Interest

In Theaters: Jul 4, 1997 Wide
On DVD: Aug 23, 2005

Critic Reviews

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.
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.
Fernando F. Croce, CinePassion
Art can't hold back the world's horrors in Jean-Luc Godard's grave and quizzical fugue
, 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.
Christopher Null, Filmcritic.com
Random and uninspired, the film gets a few points for its looks, but nada for its plot.
, Boxoffice Magazine
This feature from veteran iconoclast Jean-Luc Godard is as dense and complex as the rest of his later films, but it's more focused, perhaps due to its subject matter.
Marjorie Baumgarten, Austin Chronicle
Enormously difficult to follow and offers little guidance from its maker.

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Cast

Vicky Messica
as Vicky Vitalis The Director
Harry Cleven
as Great Writer
Frederic Pierrot
as Jerome

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