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Number Two

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

Critics Reviews

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Vincent Canby New York Times 01/15/2005
3.5/5
Numero Deux, which is technically stunning, offers no answers, only paradoxes, but in those paradoxes there exists the possibility of increased self-awareness. Go to Full Review Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader 01/01/2000
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. Go to Full Review Nell Myers Spare Rib 09/20/2021
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. Go to Full Review Jeffrey M. Anderson Combustible Celluloid 07/02/2012
It's intelligent, often brilliant, and sometimes technically groundbreaking, but also infuriating, baffling, and even repellent. Go to Full Review TV Guide 08/29/2006
4/4
An audacious film. Go to Full Review Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com 07/01/2005
5/5
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Audience Reviews

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05/19/2015 ok 'experimental film' See more 05/26/2013 A difficult film; Godard devotees will be in heaven. See more 04/10/2013 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. See more 12/03/2012 A supremely dialectical film (landscape and factory, sex and politics, male and female, sound and image, etc.). And a Godardian porno? See more 06/09/2008 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. See more 01/18/2008 Excellent and underseen effort from Godard's Lacano-Althusserian period; on the nature of the family under modern capitalism. See more Read all reviews
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Cast & Crew

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Sandrine Battistella

Wife

Pierre Oudrey

Husband

Alexandre Rignault

Grandfather

Rachel Stefanopoli

Grandmother

Jean-Luc Godard

Writer

Anne-Marie Miéville

Writer

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Movie Info

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
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