Numéro Zéro

This film, which was restored to its original form in 2002, was one of the big ‘missing links’ in the small but important oeuvre of Jean Eustache. At the time, a shortened version, about half the length of the original, was screened on television under the title ODETTE ROBERT.
NUMÉRO ZÉRO is an extensive interview by the film maker with his grandmother Odette Robert. With this film, Eustache emphasises the question of perspective. He reduces the space of the cinema to the space of the canvas and of the room. At the end of his grandmother’s life, Eustache condenses the spoken word into an intimate and monomaniacal space: Odette Robert being interviewed behind a salon table, surrounded by photographs.