Number Two

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Number Two

Released Nov 4, 1976

1h 28m

Drama

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A man's (Pierre Oudrey) family consists of a dissatisfied housewife (Sandrine Battistella), aging grandparents and two curious children.

Jonathan Rosenbaum

Sight & Sound

Situates the loss of memory and the birth of signification on the same dark and slippery but fertile terrain-a factory-landscape where anything becomes possible.

Jan 28, 2020

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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.

Rated: 3.5/5

Jan 15, 2005

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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.

Jan 1, 2000

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Nell Myers

Spare Rib

Godard -- in setting the human "need" to love against the carnivorous backdrop of technology -- lights up what may be, beneath antagonisms of sex, race and class, our greatest problem.

Sep 20, 2021

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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.

Jul 2, 2012

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TV Guide

An audacious film.

Rated: 4/4

Aug 29, 2006

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ok 'experimental film'

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

01/21/23

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A difficult film; Godard devotees will be in heaven.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/27/23

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An experimental film, I initially found this difficult to get into. A Marxist analysis of the family, and the blending of home and factory (and a variety of other concepts) it is too overtly polemical for my taste, despite some excellent moments.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/22/23

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A supremely dialectical film (landscape and factory, sex and politics, male and female, sound and image, etc.). And a Godardian porno?

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/24/23

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Partant du projet de faire un deuxieme A bout de souffle (d'ou le titre), JLG fait tout a fait autre chose... Et on l'en remercie, puisqu'il choisit judicieusement de s'attaquer a une question de son temps : le rapport entre television et politique, qui lui permet, au passage, de definir ce qu'est une machine. On ne le dira jamais assez : tous les chemins menent a Godard.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/22/23

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Excellent and underseen effort from Godard's Lacano-Althusserian period; on the nature of the family under modern capitalism.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

01/27/23

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Sandrine Battistella

Wife

Pierre Oudrey

Husband

Alexandre Rignault

Grandfather

Rachel Stefanopoli

Grandmother

Jean-Luc Godard

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Anne-Marie Miéville

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Synopsis

A man's (Pierre Oudrey) family consists of a dissatisfied housewife (Sandrine Battistella), aging grandparents and two curious children.

Producer: Jean-Pierre Rassam, Georges de Beauregard
Screenwriter: Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville, Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville
Distributor: Facets, Warner Bros. Pictures
Production Co: Sonimage, Bella Productions, Anne-age-Bela
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Canadian French
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 4, 1976, Wide
Release Date (DVD): Oct 1, 2015
Runtime: 1h 28m
Sound Mix: Mono