Je vous salue Sarajevo

Duncan Gray

How momentous can two minutes be? I was struck by the length after noticing that this is one of Godard's highest rated films on MUBI. (It's on YouTube). The way it turns a single photograph into an entire microcosm to explore is inspired, though a lot of its speed-read philosophy about culture suppressing the art of life makes Godard sound not like a prophet but like the smartest grad student at an undergrad party.

dionysus67

Godard fragment that, like all great art, is elevated into totality. With a political reversal of the rule/exception dualism, consolidated by bourgeois society's norms, Godard renders the rule malign (consumer culture) and the exception benign (art's revolutionary potential). The result, ideological committments aside, is simultaneously secular and transcendent. Uniquely Godardian lilliputien gem.

Karl J. Kipling

I don't know how to rate a 2-minute movie, so it gets a 2 star. A few still images over which Godard does his usual poetic-narration thing, leaves an impression neither here nor there. The gushing reviews of it on this site seem to me only further proof of how many of those there are for whom this great genius can do no wrong.

Scorpio Velvet

It's all about the media in our world we live in, just told shortly by Godard. But I just wonder why he would use still photographs from the Bosnian War. I think the answer is only because he is trying to tell us something important. Anyway, I'll have to say that both the narration & images are thought-provoking yet impressive. He should have used the dialogues in something else instead on the war, but this works.

Zachary W

'Je vous salue Sarajevo' is monumental. This is one of the great works of art about the 20th century.

Sophy Romvari

Wow.

Nuno André Silva

This has one of the best quotes of all time!

Lights in the Dusk

"The image sir, alone capable of denying nothingness, is also the gaze of nothingness on us."