Numéro deux

"It's my body, it's my kitchen, my kids. It's too much, and yet, it's not enough."

Nov 4 1976 N/A 1h 28m
Documentary, Drama

Jean-Luc Godard mixes video and film in his Grenoble studio, discussing how he secured funding for the film. The action unfolds on two monitors, as a young working-class couple lives in a claustrophobic, high-rise apartment complex and marital discord is set off by the wife’s infidelity.

Plot

Three generations of a working class French family living together, and argues against traditional concepts of eroticism, instead referring the characters' sexual parameters to a whole series of complex emotions which in turn relate to any number of separate factors, political and social. The frustrations of Sandrine, a constipated wife and her impotent husband are explored in this experimental film that was originally a video tape. The eccentric couple are quite frustrated by their bodies. Throughout the film many bizarre things happen. For example, to teach their children about sex, they do it right in front of them. The grandparents also talk to the camera buck naked.

Written by

Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville

Directed by

Jean-Luc Godard

Cast

Sandrine Battistella, Pierre Oudrey, Alexandre Rignault

Crew

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Production Countries

France

Production Companies

Sonimage, Société Nouvelle de Cinématographie (SNC), Bela Productions, Anne-age-Bela

Languages

Français

Awards

N/A

Scores
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1,094
Average Rating
6.2 out of 10
Metascore
NA
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