Numéro deux (Number Two) (1975)
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Numéro Deux marks the high point of co-directors Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville's experimentation with video. They present a set of scenes from the everyday interactions of a working class family. The body of the film was initially shot on video, then played back on monitors and filmed… More Numéro Deux marks the high point of co-directors Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville's experimentation with video. They present a set of scenes from the everyday interactions of a working class family. The body of the film was initially shot on video, then played back on monitors and filmed in 35 millimeter. The screen often shows two scenes being played back on two different monitors, each split into two video images. The filmmakers used this technique to invent a new form of editing that juxtaposes images presented at the same time instead of one after another as in traditional editing. Like most of Miéville and Godard's early collaborations Numéro Deux examines the relationship between love, work, sex, gender and representation. In addition Numéro deux presents a fascinating philosophical investigation of the status of children in modern life. ~ Louis Schwartz, Rovi
- Directed By
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Written By
- Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville
- Genres
- Drama, Art House & International, Special Interest
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Sep 24, 1975 Wide
- On DVD
- Feb 2, 1994
Critic Reviews
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Vincent Canby, New York Times
Numero Deux, which is technically stunning, offers no answers, only paradoxes, but in those paradoxes there exists the possibility of increased self-awareness.
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Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
In many respects, this is a film about reverse angles and all that they imply; it forms one of Godard's richest and most disturbing meditations on social reality.
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Jeffrey M. Anderson, Combustible Celluloid
It's intelligent, often brilliant, and sometimes technically groundbreaking, but also infuriating, baffling, and even repellent.
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, TV Guide's Movie Guide
An audacious film.
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Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews
One of the noted filmmaker's better and more subversive films.
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Cast
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Sandrine Battistella
as Wife
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Pierre Oudrey
as Husband
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Alexandre Rignault
as Grandpa
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Rachel Stefanopoli
as Grandma
- Jean-Luc Godard
