93. NOTRE MUSIQUE
 
France/Switzerland
dir. Jean-Luc Godard
world premiere 2004
U.S. release 2004
 

 
Because there is no pejorative that scares Godard: not pedantic, not abstruse, not sullen, certainly not ambitious, and because he uses the frank, dazzling fact of his montage as an introductory credential toward doing whatever he wants. As daring or dry or kitschy or alarming as it gets, you keep wanting to finish the essay.