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Alphaville
98 minutes 1965
review by Tony Lee
More interesting than good, this is French 'New Wave science fiction, written and
directed by Jean-Luc Godard, as a sort of comedy-thriller. Grim-faced Eddie Constantine
plays secret agent Lemmy Caution, who is sent on a mission to assassinate Professor
Von Braun, the ruler of a sterile, computer dominated, Orwellian state called
'Alphaville'. Without any special effects, it's shot mostly at night in Paris, and it
does have a strange futuristic quality (much like Truffaut's Fahrenheit 451)
even when seen today in our post-Blade Runner age.
The b/w photography produces some quite striking images, and although it's constant
intellectualising can be more than a bit pretentious at times, Alphaville is
still well worth visiting - if you don't mind the subtitles.
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