Alphaville (1965)
(Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution)
Country: FR/IT
Technical: bw 98m
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Cast: Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina, Akim Tamiroff
Synopsis:
An American private detective lands in Alphaville, a futuristic city on another planet, to search for a missing person and challenge the ruler who has imposed a ban on love and self-expression.
Review:
At least you might infer such a plotline from the incoherent images and grating voice-over that count for storytelling in Godard-ville, the cinema of the future. Some of the shots have acquired a mystique of their own in the meantime, such as Constantine moving down a corridor opening and closing doors, or the firing squad at a swimming pool, and it is no doubt brimming with ideas, like all its maker's films.
(Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution)
Country: FR/IT
Technical: bw 98m
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Cast: Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina, Akim Tamiroff
Synopsis:
An American private detective lands in Alphaville, a futuristic city on another planet, to search for a missing person and challenge the ruler who has imposed a ban on love and self-expression.
Review:
At least you might infer such a plotline from the incoherent images and grating voice-over that count for storytelling in Godard-ville, the cinema of the future. Some of the shots have acquired a mystique of their own in the meantime, such as Constantine moving down a corridor opening and closing doors, or the firing squad at a swimming pool, and it is no doubt brimming with ideas, like all its maker's films.
(Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution)
Country: FR/IT
Technical: bw 98m
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Cast: Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina, Akim Tamiroff
Synopsis:
An American private detective lands in Alphaville, a futuristic city on another planet, to search for a missing person and challenge the ruler who has imposed a ban on love and self-expression.
Review:
At least you might infer such a plotline from the incoherent images and grating voice-over that count for storytelling in Godard-ville, the cinema of the future. Some of the shots have acquired a mystique of their own in the meantime, such as Constantine moving down a corridor opening and closing doors, or the firing squad at a swimming pool, and it is no doubt brimming with ideas, like all its maker's films.