A group of young people set out from Switzerland for Sarajevo to mount a performance of Musset and are gruesomely ambushed; meanwhile, a movie director is preparing an epic on war but can't get past the endless retakes. Godard's film is a Pirandellian provocation-"36 Characters in Search of History." It is also "the most...profound of the films Godard has made about war, beginning with Les Carabiniers....Proceeding perhaps from the homily that on the battlefield, the explosion you hear is never the one that kills you, For Ever Mozart is a film in which image and sound are disjoined from the start....In confronting the failure of art to change the course of history and the moral obligation of the artist to nevertheless bear witness to her/his time, For Ever Mozart treads on ground so familiar it can only be played as farce....In the age of unreason...beautiful image(s) ...collide, fragment, and fly apart." (Amy Taubin, Village Voice)