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Number Two

Released Nov 4, 1976 1h 28m Drama List
100% Tomatometer 8 Reviews 79% Popcornmeter 500+ Ratings
A man's (Pierre Oudrey) family consists of a dissatisfied housewife (Sandrine Battistella), aging grandparents and two curious children.

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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 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review Jeffrey M. Anderson Combustible Celluloid It's intelligent, often brilliant, and sometimes technically groundbreaking, but also infuriating, baffling, and even repellent. Jul 2, 2012 Full Review TV Guide An audacious film. Rated: 4/4 Aug 29, 2006 Full Review Read all reviews

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william k Experimental video essay is quite a demanding watch, since Godard manages to continuously irritate and provoke his audience off guard, but again compelling enough to keep its attention. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member ok 'experimental film' Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member A difficult film; Godard devotees will be in heaven. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Audience Member 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 Full Review Audience Member 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 Full Review jack c One of the few times Godard went in full-blown experimentation mode and it WORKED. I still remember some scenes as being truly disturbing. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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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
Anne-age-Bela, Sonimage, Bella Productions
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