Four friends help each other through the middle-age blahs in Claude Sautet's tired exercise in Gallic humanism (1974). In
Numero deux Jean-Luc Godard holds this film up as the epitome of bourgeois realism. He may be right. Michel Piccoli and Yves Montand star; with Gerard Depardieu and Stephane Audran.
By
Dave Kehr