Alphaville

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Sci-Fi

Runtime: 99 mins

Rated: NR

Release Date: 1965

Countries: France, Italy

Languages: French

DIRECTED BY:

Jean-Luc Godard

WRITTEN BY:

Jean-Luc Godard

CAST INCLUDES:

Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina, Akim Tamiroff

ANGELIKA’S NOTE

A Berlin International Film Festival from director Jean-Luc Godard, ALPHAVILLE follows a U.S. secret agent who is sent to the distant space city of Alphaville where he must find a missing person and free the city from its tyrannical ruler. Rated 91% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, Time Out calls it "a dazzling amalgam of film noir and science fiction."

SYNOPSIS

Government agent Lemmy Caution (Eddie Constantine) is dispatched on a secret mission to Alphaville, a dystopian metropolis in a distant corner of the galaxy. Caution is hot on the trail of rogue agent Henri Dickson (Akim Tamiroff) and a scientist named Von Braun, the creator of Alpha 60, a computer that uses mind control to rule over residents of Alphaville. Caution is aided in his quest to destroy the despotic computer ruler by Von Braun’s own daughter, Natacha (Anna Karina).

Alphaville

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Sci-Fi

Runtime: 99 mins

Rated: NR

Release Date: 1965

Countries: France, Italy

Languages: French

DIRECTED BY

Jean-Luc Godard

WRITTEN BY

Jean-Luc Godard

CAST INCLUDES

Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina, Akim Tamiroff

ANGELIKA’S NOTE
SYNOPSIS

"One of Godard's most sheerly enjoyable movies, a dazzling amalgam of film noir and science fiction."

Time Out

"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."

Chicago Reader

"It's one of the great cinematic works of romanticism, as well as a sort of filmed revelation of the very essence of science-fiction movies and German silent classics -- their blend of social critique, emotional liberation, and paranoia."

New Yorker