My paper examines Darwish's depiction in Jean-Luc Godard's 2004 film, _Notre Musique_, a reflection on war, conquest, and genocide and on poets' and intellectuals' efforts to make sense of and to intervene in these man-made horrors. Although this is not the first fictional feature to include Darwish's poetry, Godard's film is unique in that it presents the poet at a conference with a number of European intellectuals and poets, including, among others, Pierre Bergounioux and Juan Goytisolo. Godard initially creates in viewers a sensation of waiting for Darwish to appear. His name is mentioned near the beginning of the film, after a lengthy and devastating montage of actual war footage and cinematic war depictions has been flashed on the screen to the accompaniment of pounding piano notes, but he does not appear until after Native American characters have demanded justice in a burned-out library in Sarajevo, the city where the conference is being held. My paper focuses on a scene at the heart of the film during which Darwish is interviewed by a reporter from Tel Aviv. She speaks in Hebrew to him, quoting from his political statements and poems and pressing him to explain these lines, and he answers in Arabic, using in most cases more excerpts from his poetry. Speaking as a representative for his people, a role that he had elsewhere explained that he prefers to avoid, he directly implicates his interviewer in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by explaining that the reason the world is so interested in Palestinians is "because you are our enemy. The interest is in you not in me." He also speaks over one of her questions, correcting lines from his poem that she is quoting and telling her "there has to be an error for it to be this way" and that "there's another meaning to those lines . . ." My concern in the paper will be to analyze the way in which Darwish is presented and to examine the effect of his presence and of his recited poetry on the film as a whole. I will also consider Darwish's relationship with French intellectuals during the period when he was living in exile in France and his relationship with the film's director Godard in particular, who has been active in telling Palestinians' story in films such as _Until the Victory_ (1970) and _Here and Elsewhere_ (1976), which includes recitations of Darwish's poetry.