A group of young people set out from Switzerland for Sarajevo to mount a performance of a play by Alfred 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).