Our Music
Dir: Jean-Luc Godard
France, 2004, 80 minmins, DCP
Cast: Sarah Adler, Nade Dieu, Rony Kramer, Georges Aguilar
Godard returns to Sarajevo with a question that has long haunted him: what role can artists and intellectuals play when they intervene in politics and history? With a three-part structure borrowed from Dante, Godard first depicts war (“Hell”) with a montage of found footage, before taking us to postwar Sarajevo (“Purgatory”) and a cultural conference presided over by Godard himself and other real-life poets and thinkers, where we are introduced to the film’s young protagonists Judith and Olga – a journalist and a film student – who choose opposite paths towards changing society. A coda (“Paradise”) ironically considers the aftermath of martyrdom.
The screening of this film will be sourced from DVD due to issues with the print copies.
San Sebastián International Film Festival: FIPRESCI Prize
27/11 (FRI): Lecture with Dr. Derek Lam, Lecturer of Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong. Approximately 1 hour, conducted in Cantonese. Audience who attends the course is eligible for a complimentary copy of Godard, Film, History (Chinese version only)
Package Discount : 25% discount to each purchase of 2 or above standard tickets to the film course. 30% discount to each purchase of standard tickets to ALL six film course sessions.
K11 Art House
Post-screening talk
Remarks
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