Alphaville (1965)
87 %
Reviews Counted: 23 Fresh: 20 Rotten:3 Average Rating: 8/10
Consensus:
While Alphaville is by no means a conventional sci-fi film, Jean-Luc Godard creates a witty, noir-ish future all his own.
Runtime: 1 hr 40 mins
Synopsis: 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,... [More]
Genre: Foreign Films
Starring: Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina, Akim Tamiroff, Howard Vernon, Laszlo Szabo
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Screenwriter: Jean-Luc Godard
Producer: Andre Michelin
Composer: Paul Misraki
Screenwriter: Jean-Luc Godard
Producer: Andre Michelin
Composer: Paul Misraki
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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.
05/29/07
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.
05/29/07
Top Critic
One of Godard's most sheerly enjoyable movies, a dazzling amalgam of film noir and science fiction.
06/24/06
Mr. Godard's conclusion that love -- good old love -- conquers all is a curiously disappointing finish for such an initially promising film.
05/09/05
Top Critic
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.
04/29/04
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.
10/10/03
A poetic, funny, and visually inspired blend of sci-fi, detective-film satire, and political allegory.
07/30/03
Esta fascinante mistura de noir, 1984 e Admirável Mundo Novo filosofa, como Solaris faria sete anos depois, sobre a natureza do homem e suas contradições.
07/25/03
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