Average Rating: 8/10
Reviews Counted: 27
Fresh: 23 | Rotten: 4
While Alphaville is by no means a conventional sci-fi film, Jean-Luc Godard creates a witty, noir-ish future all his own.
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While Alphaville is by no means a conventional sci-fi film, Jean-Luc Godard creates a witty, noir-ish future all his own.
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In Alphaville, Jean-Luc Godard fuses a hardboiled detective story with science fiction. Lemmy Caution (Eddie Constantine), a hero Godard borrowed from a series of French adventure films, comes to Alphaville, the capital of a totalitarian state, in order to destroy its leader, an almost-human computer called Alpha 60. While on his mission, Lemmy meets and falls in love with Natacha (Anna Karina), the daughter of the scientist who designed Alpha 60. Their love becomes the most profound challenge
Unrated, 1 hr. 40 min.
Drama, Art House & International, Mystery & Suspense, Science Fiction & Fantasy
May 5, 1965 Limited
Oct 20, 1998
Janus Films
All Critics (28) | Top Critics (3) | Fresh (23) | Rotten (4) | DVD (7)
It remains an outstanding example of the filmmaker's power to transform an environment through the selection of detail: everything in it is familiar, but nothing is recognizable.
Mr. Godard's conclusion that love -- good old love -- conquers all is a curiously disappointing finish for such an initially promising film.
Modern audiences may be tempted to overlook the significance of Goddard's groundbreaking vision but that doesn't detract from its powerful influence on film and pop culture.
The haunting imagery and dystopian vision of Alphaville deserves comparison to Fritz Lang's Metropolis
Made in the most creative phase of Jean-Luc Godard's career, this sci-fi-political allegory is visually brilliant and quite riveting in its first half before the film gets too didactic in the last reel.
The self-conscious didacticism of 'Alphaville' sinks its ship.
Unforgettable.
A perfect example of Godard shaking up convention and exploring new ways of making cinema, Alphaville is challenging in places and thematically familiar in others.
One of Godard's most sheerly enjoyable movies, a dazzling amalgam of film noir and science fiction.
New Wave classic. Set bold new standards. Whatever.
This cold war allegorical sci-fi film is imaginatively made and proves that sometimes the most mundane images can become dazzling in the right context.
Packed to the brim with imagination, particularly the insane 2nd half.
It works both as a philosophical treatise on politics and film as well as an entertaining and often amusing look at a future overrun by technology.
Technically sloppy but effective science fiction from the directorial stewardship of Jean-Luc Godard. To me, Godard is like the Jackson Pollock of filmdom - I appreciate his contributions to the art-form but I wouldn't want his stuff in my house.
January 19, 2009
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