{"id":16470,"date":"2024-05-31T20:00:40","date_gmt":"2024-06-01T00:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=16470"},"modified":"2024-05-31T19:54:03","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T23:54:03","slug":"numero-deux-1975-jean-luc-godard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/16470","title":{"rendered":"Num\u00e9ro Deux (1975, Jean-Luc Godard)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Godard in a dim room with a videocamera on him and a monitor, so he appears twice from different angles, talking an awful lot, but the main thing I remember is how he thinks puns are useful and wishes people took them more seriously.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/numero1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Female narrator suggests what this film might be about while we see three TV screens and a dark figure in front DJing with tape reels.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/numero2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>TV monitor split-screens with bird sounds mixed with the dialogue.<\/p>\n<p>Kinda turns into a family story and a sex-ed movie. &#8220;I sometimes look at my cock. That isn&#8217;t cinema, though.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/numero3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Amy Taubin calls it &#8220;a vitriolic indictment of the sexual politics of the nuclear family&#8221; and says it&#8217;s the first Godard feature in which Mi\u00e9ville&#8217;s influence is evident.  In <em>Everything is Cinema<\/em>, Richard Brody says Godard had accepted a commission to make a <em>Breathless<\/em> follow-up, hence the title, and says the finished film &#8220;has the unpleasant aspect of a medical document.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Godard in a dim room with a videocamera on him and a monitor, so he appears twice from different angles, talking an awful lot, but the main thing I remember is how he thinks puns are useful and wishes people took them more seriously. Female narrator suggests what this film might be about while we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[400,51,182,661,2815],"class_list":["post-16470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1970s","tag-jean-luc-godard","tag-sex","tag-split-screen","tag-videotape"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16497,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16470\/revisions\/16497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}