Odette Robert
In 1971, Jean Eustache had the idea to film his grandmother, Odette Robert. She recounts her life to him: her unhappy youth, her early marriage to a womanizing man, the tragic deaths of her parents and children... A poignant testimony of the life of a woman from the early 20th century, between cigarettes and whisky.
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Odette Robert, the condensed version of Numéro Zéro, is the lucid project of a director filming his grandmother for four hours — two full rolls of film: no more, no less. In this setup of splendid simplicity, it's hard to be more biographical; we grasp what determines a life and a destiny in a way that is complex yet succinct, and how they are written by historical or social movements that go beyond the individual. With Jean Eustache in the foreground of the shot, a mirror game also unfolds with Odette Robert: we inherit the lives of our ancestors. Their lives seep into us, whether we want it or not. It's evident that this is a very significant film for the spoken word in cinema; Jean Eustache shows that a movie can unfold based on the spoken word thanks to the people in the image but also because the words themselves are images – strong, striking and overwhelming images… There is a disturbing and "eloquent" anecdote about Wang Bing who went on to direct Fengming, A Chinese Memoire (2007) after watching Numéro Zéro… without having understood a single word of it.
Arnaud Hée
Programmer, teacher and critic
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Odette Robert
54 mn
Language: Multilang
- Année 1980
- Pays France
- Durée 54
- Producteur INA
- Langue French
- Résumé court In 1971, Jean Eustache filmed his grandmother Odette Robert, who tells him about her life.
- Ordre 5
- Description revue <p>En complément, consultez le dossier spécial consacré au cinéaste Jean Eustache publié chez <em>Hors champ.</em></p> <p> </p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em><img alt="" src="https://dhkhp2rgto9nq.cloudfront.net/img/cms/Capture d’écran, le 2024-02-06 à 23.43.30.png" style="height: 164px; width: 200px;" /></em></p>
- Lien revue https://horschamp.qc.ca/article/quelques-entrelacements
- Texte bouton revue Bonne lecture!
Odette Robert, the condensed version of Numéro Zéro, is the lucid project of a director filming his grandmother for four hours — two full rolls of film: no more, no less. In this setup of splendid simplicity, it's hard to be more biographical; we grasp what determines a life and a destiny in a way that is complex yet succinct, and how they are written by historical or social movements that go beyond the individual. With Jean Eustache in the foreground of the shot, a mirror game also unfolds with Odette Robert: we inherit the lives of our ancestors. Their lives seep into us, whether we want it or not. It's evident that this is a very significant film for the spoken word in cinema; Jean Eustache shows that a movie can unfold based on the spoken word thanks to the people in the image but also because the words themselves are images – strong, striking and overwhelming images… There is a disturbing and "eloquent" anecdote about Wang Bing who went on to direct Fengming, A Chinese Memoire (2007) after watching Numéro Zéro… without having understood a single word of it.
Arnaud Hée
Programmer, teacher and critic
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Odette Robert
Duration: 54 minutesLanguage: Multilang54 mn
- Année 1980
- Pays France
- Durée 54
- Producteur INA
- Langue French
- Résumé court In 1971, Jean Eustache filmed his grandmother Odette Robert, who tells him about her life.
- Ordre 5
- Description revue <p>En complément, consultez le dossier spécial consacré au cinéaste Jean Eustache publié chez <em>Hors champ.</em></p> <p> </p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em><img alt="" src="https://dhkhp2rgto9nq.cloudfront.net/img/cms/Capture d’écran, le 2024-02-06 à 23.43.30.png" style="height: 164px; width: 200px;" /></em></p>
- Lien revue https://horschamp.qc.ca/article/quelques-entrelacements
- Texte bouton revue Bonne lecture!
