Jean-Luc Godard brilliantly mixes video and film in Numero Deux. Set in the director's Grenoble studio, the action unfolds on two television monitors. Godard secured the money for the film claiming the project was a remake of Breathless. The elusive plot essentially concerns the marital discord--set off by the wife's infidelity--between a young working-class couple (Sandrine Battistella and Pierre Oudry) who live in a claustrophobic, high-rise apartment complex. The film, made in collaboration with Anne-Marie Mieville, is a dialectic on the relationship of sex and money. "I think it's something like a masterpiece. Numero Deux is among the most visually compelling films Godard has ever made. He uses his video monitors to invent a dozen new ways of splitting the screen or layering the image. Compared to it, every other movie in town is just a cavity on the screen" (J. Hoberman, Village Voice). With Alexandre Rignault and Rachel Stefanopoli. In French with English subtitles.

Jean-Luc Godard---France---1976---88 mins.

• Olive Films
• Release date: 06/26/2012