Alphaville
Suddenly the word is Alphaville... and a secret agent is in a breathless race against the Masters of the Future.
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 40 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: July 9, 2019
- Originally Released: 1965
- Label: KL Studio Classics
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina & Akim Tamiroff | |
Directed by | Jean-Luc Godard | |
Edited by | Agnès Guillemot | |
Screenwriting by | Jean-Luc Godard | |
Composition by | Paul Misraki | |
Produced by | Andre Michelin | |
Director of Photography: | Raoul Coutard |
Entertainment Reviews:
Despite its age it's that rare science fiction film that doesn't seem to have dated at all.
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Los Angeles Times
Rating: B --
It's so archly intellectual that you fear it might splinter if you poke it in the ribs. It's also endlessly playful in its worship of American movie tropes, and deeply resourceful.
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Dallas Morning News
ALPHAVILLE was in part about the importance of love and human connection in a world where technology was warping interpersonal contact. Those issues have not gone away, they've gotten stronger and more pressing with the passage of time.
Los Angeles Times
Godard whips this peculiar mélange of cinematic influences and invention into a work that is stimulating, stylish, and irresistible.
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The Lens
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Take(s) elements of classic Hollywood and twist(s) them into a haunting foreshadowing of the Godard to come.
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From the Front Row
No movie, not even Breathless, better exemplifies the syncretic quality of Godard's early genius.
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Village Voice
Always something strangely individualistic, utterly contemporary, and yet for all that, riddled with déjà vu, cultural echo chambers, a kind of deliberately outmoded sleight-of-hand.
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The New York Review of Books
Product Description:
With 1965's ALPHAVILLE--part sci-fi action film, part noir thriller--the acclaimed French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard achieves a stunningly clinical futurism using absolutely no special visual effects. The result is a moving, original film that, with its abstract, political, and intellectual themes, essentially redefines the apocalyptic science fiction genre. ALPHAVILLE, clearly the product of one of cinema's greatest contributors, is nothing less than a bona fide cult classic.
A bizarre space-chase across a glass and metal landscape of futuristic Paris--here called Alphaville--is the movie's premise. Creating a dystopian "tomorrow" characterized by alienation and cold corporate comforts, Godard slyly suggests that the future is now. Secret agent man Lemmy Caution (Eddie Constantine) travels across the expanses of intergalactic space and time to uncover the fate of his missing predecessor. Working under the alias of Ivan Johnson, Caution is accompanied in his quest by the lovely Natasha Vonbraun (Anna Karina), the daughter of a supposedly missing professor. Caution later discovers that the elder Vonbraun is the mastermind behind Alpha 60--the rigid, masterful computer that governs Alphaville. Alpha's job is to crush individuality, eradicating any human being who does not conform. Ultimately, Lemmy is left with no other choice but to destroy the calculating chip-and-wire monolith, with the only weapons he has left: his heart and soul.
A bizarre space-chase across a glass and metal landscape of futuristic Paris--here called Alphaville--is the movie's premise. Creating a dystopian "tomorrow" characterized by alienation and cold corporate comforts, Godard slyly suggests that the future is now. Secret agent man Lemmy Caution (Eddie Constantine) travels across the expanses of intergalactic space and time to uncover the fate of his missing predecessor. Working under the alias of Ivan Johnson, Caution is accompanied in his quest by the lovely Natasha Vonbraun (Anna Karina), the daughter of a supposedly missing professor. Caution later discovers that the elder Vonbraun is the mastermind behind Alpha 60--the rigid, masterful computer that governs Alphaville. Alpha's job is to crush individuality, eradicating any human being who does not conform. Ultimately, Lemmy is left with no other choice but to destroy the calculating chip-and-wire monolith, with the only weapons he has left: his heart and soul.
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