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Number Two

1975, Movie, NR, 88 mins

Number Two: Review

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Announced by Godard as a remake of BREATHLESS (a ploy to get financing), this video project has almost nothing to do with his 1959 masterpiece. Battistella and Dudry are a dissatisfied couple who suffer from physical ailments. Battistella is stricken with chronic constipation, and her husband is unable to perform sexually. They teach their children about sex by showing them, and the grandparents, naked, speak directly to the camera. As Richard Roud writes, "although NUMERO DEUX is a frustrating film about frustration, a constipated film about constipation, it is not entirely without a sense of hope." Shot on videotape (and later transferred to film), the majority of the picture uses only a portion of the screen, usually the upper-left and the lower-right portions. The finish, however, relieves the tension this creates by opening up the entire screen. To further his interests in video, Godard built a studio in Grenoble where his tape experiments for French television continued until 1980 with the release of EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF, marking his much-awaited return to commercial filmmaking and international distribution. An audacious film. leave a comment
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