| FIPRESCI GRAND PRIX FOR BEST FILM OF THE YEAR |
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Notre
musique |
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Jean-Luc Godard France-Switzerland
2004 |
The international recognition awarded within the framework of
the San Sebastian Film Festival by FIPRESCI (International Federation
of Film Critics) and its FIPRESCI Grand Prix of the Year, is the
best assurance of the importance of this award, now in its sixth
year. 160 Federation members worldwide have issued their vote
for a film from among those released between August 2003 and July
2004.
This award, created with a view to backing the most audacious,
original and personal cinema, goes on this sixth occasion to a
director of lengthy career and prestige: Jean-Luc Godard for his
latest movie, Notre musique (Our Music), presented in this year’s
Official Selection at Cannes.
The new work by the always restless and experimental Swiss director
is not a documentary, but neither is it a fiction. It’s
an essay with history. Divided into three parts: Hell, taking
us closer to combat with a mixture of war shots; Purgatory, focussing
on a visit to Sarajevo for the European Book Conference; and Heaven,
portraying a bucolic scene custodied by US marines, the film shows
that the wars of the past, the Balkans, and of the present, Palestine
and Israel, are always terrible.
The Fipresci Grand Prix will be awarded at the opening gala of
the 52nd San Sebastian Festival to Ruth Waldburger, producer of
Jean-Luc Godard since 1996 with For Ever Mozart and to whom we
owe titles including Alain Resnais’ On connaît la
chanson (Same Old Song) (1997), Pola X, by Leos Carax (1999),
or Nicole Garcia’s L’Adversaire (The Adversary) (2002),
among many others. |
