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Clementine K.

Anna Karina is particularly beautiful in this.

7 years 11 months ago

NuclearPlanet

I just love how nothing makes sense.

10 years 10 months ago

locovoco

I think Hal 9000 and Alpha 60 were once married which is how Darth Vader was born...

7 years 2 months ago

Boy, do I hate Jean-Luc Godard. I can appreciate his fearless experimentalism, but generally find the results amateurish-looking, thematically or tonally incoherent, and more than a little pretentious. Alphaville isn't as bad as some, i.e. I didn't bail after the first act, but it still annoyed the heck out of me. It's a film noir set in a future that looks exactly like the present, where continents are referred to as galaxies, but the Cold War wasn't too long ago. In Alphaville, emotions have been outlawed and a computer runs things. Maybe love is the way out of this Orwellian nightmare, but the lead is even less emotional than the natives, so I don't know. While there are some exciting pieces of film making - the lean and mean gun fights, for example - the sound design is horrendous. The "tan-tan-tannnn" suspense music turns the film into a parody (it doesn't help that characters have names like Heckle and Jeckle), but not in any way a funny one. The computer voice sounds wet and phlegmy, which is repulsive and bizarre. And generally, the environments are full of echo and voices get a little lost. And as usual with Godard, characters have a tendency to spout poetry and philosophy with Brechtian apathy. Alphaville shows up in a lot of later film's DNA - Godard's films are a gold mine for young directors looking for cool ideas - but I don't think the ideas come together very well. Anyone who poaches elements from Godard stands a good chance of using them better than he did.

5 years 1 month ago

acolthart

this is like all the student films in the world rolled into one

10 years 10 months ago

Neville

A show-off film-noir melodrama spoof, with added existentialist philosophy and Leftist politics ...

13 years ago

Darth Karcher

can't believe this mess was made by the same guy that made a masterpiece like contempt

1 year 3 months ago

the3rdman

One time I tried watching it and I fell asleep, but I finished it on the second attempt and it was pretty good. I'm not really sure what exactly is weird about this film, it's pretty straightforward...

12 years 3 months ago

Jonathan_Hutchings

Godard, at the height of his powers.

12 years 6 months ago

daisyaday

Got a light?

12 years 6 months ago

Windill

Weird anticipation movie.
There is a funny fight scene in the first 10 minutes. Beyond, it's just a sequence of scenes that are either boring or ridiculous, sometimes both. It's so pretentious that you would laugh out loud if you weren't losing your time. It's also disgustingly machist.

4 years 12 months ago