Jean-Luc Godard: Expect Everything From Cinema
Numéro deux (Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville; France, 1975)
- When
- Thu Oct 2, 2014
- Where
- PFA Theater
- Time
- 7:00pm
- Cost
- $5.50 - $9.50
- Tags
- Movies, Foreign, Film Screenings
Description
The first masterpiece of Godard’s post-Maoist period, Numéro deux (is) also his first, truly assured use of video technology. Shot on tape, released on 35mm, the movie is almost entirely images of images—set entirely inside Godard’s Grenoble studio and, with the exception of the two framing shots, played out on a pair of TV monitors. The camera never moves but the little TVs bring us everything—sports, news, music, and sex. (The film takes) as its subject the effect of modern capitalism on sex as experienced by a multi-generational working-class family crammed into an apartment in a high-rise housing project. . . . Godard uses the video camera to invent a dozen new ways of splitting the screen or layering the image. The effect is grim yet visually entrancing. The brilliance of Numéro deux lies in this strategy—Godard doesn’t allude to the media but rather he sets out to reproduce it.• With Sandrine Battistella, Pierre Oudry, Alexandre Rignault. (88 mins, In French with English subtitles, Color, Digital, From Olive Films)
More Info
- Link
- http://bampfa.berkeley.edu/film/FN20823
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