TIFF Report: No Godard, Just a Good Movie. Notre Musique (Our Music) Review

I started my film fest out with Notre Musique, the newest offering from Jean-Luc Godard. I was looking forward to this film launching off the fest for me and it was a good idea I must say. I enjoy Godard's work and I enjoyed this film, though this is where I confess that I hate films that use crude and off key piano sounds to display emotion. With that said, the film is split up into 3 "kingdoms" (Hell, Purgatory and Paradise) with Purgatory encompassing most of the film and delievering the story. It was overlooked at Cannes, and also called "senile work" (by Le Nouvel Observateur) but even with it's short comings (poor editing, intolerable music moments - a personal thing more than anything), I believe his newest work to be one worth the view. It clearly has grand moments that make audiences think and react and shows Godard's personal thoughts of today's society. To find out more about the movie and the remaing times at the film fest, click here.

Next up is trying to find Todd in the line up tonight to watch Ghost in the Shell 2 : Innocence.