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Alphaville (1965)

NR 05/05/1965 Drama, Science Fiction, Mystery 1h 39m
69%
User
Score
7.0/10
92%
92/100

Suddenly the word is Alphaville... and a secret agent is in a breathless race against the Masters of the Future.

Overview

Lemmy Caution is on a mission to eliminate Professor Von Braun, the creator of a malevolent computer that rules the city of Alphaville. Befriended by the scientist’s daughter Natasha, Lemmy must unravel the mysteries of the strictly logical Alpha 60 and teach Natasha the meaning of the word “love.”

Jean-Luc Godard

Director

Peter Cheyney

Characters

Part of the Lemmy Caution Series

Includes Alphaville and other great movies.

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Top Billed Cast

Eddie Constantine

Eddie Constantine

Lemmy Caution

Anna Karina

Anna Karina

Natacha von Braun

Akim Tamiroff

Akim Tamiroff

Henri Dickson

Valérie Boisgel

Valérie Boisgel

2nd Seductress Third Class (uncredited)

Jean-Louis Comolli

Jean-Louis Comolli

Prof. Jeckell (uncredited)

Michel Delahaye

Michel Delahaye

von Braun's Assistant (uncredited)

Christa Lang

Christa Lang

1st Seductress Third Class (uncredited)

Jean-Pierre Léaud

Jean-Pierre Léaud

Breakfast Waiter (uncredited)

László Szabó

László Szabó

Chief Engineer (uncredited)

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Media

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Reviews

A review by CRCulver

Written on June 5, 2018

Jean-Luc Godard's 1965 film ALPHAVILLE has one of the most bizarre premises in the history of cinema. Godard borrows the character of Lemmy Caution, a tough FBI agent/secret agent played by Eddie Constantine that had appeared in a number of French B movies, and then Godard drops Caution into a science-fiction film. And yet, this film taking place in a different galaxy far, far away doesn't use any specially created sets or fancy ray guns. Instead, Godard simply shot the film at examples of modernist architecture in Paris, in industrial buildings, and among the room-sized IBM mainframe computers of his time.

In the dystopian city of Alphaville, all decisions are made by the gigantic Alpha 60 computer that pursues logic at all cost, banning human emotions and leaving the inhabitants zombi...

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A review by lancethedealer

Written on January 25, 2019

Ivan Caution explores the dystopian Alphaville where the only truth is logic, anything else is punishable by death. Everybody is popping pills, womenn are classes by their seductive level and the men are merely puppets to the computer Alpha 60.

The plot is strangely reminiscent of today, almost in a predictive fashion. It seems to be influenced by 1984 but it doesn’t do so in a repetitive or tiring manner. Moreover the film is really refreshing. Shots that simply don’t happen anymore. The story although basically similar to many movies, doesn’t seem that predicable and I wasn’t dreading the end. The love story is also not just thrown in there, but actually helps understand what kind of place Alphaville really is.

Effects that could be done at home with ease, but yet work so w...

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