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- 1965
- Not Rated
- Pathé Contemporary Films
- 1 h 39 m
- 1965
- Not Rated
- Pathé Contemporary Films
- 1 h 39 m
Summary A U.S. secret agent is sent to the distant space city of Alphaville where he must find a missing person and free the city from its tyrannical ruler.
Directed By: Jean-Luc Godard
Written By: Paul Éluard, Jean-Luc Godard
- 1965
- Not Rated
- Pathé Contemporary Films
- 1 h 39 m
- 1965
- Not Rated
- Pathé Contemporary Films
- 1 h 39 m
Alphaville
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Summary A U.S. secret agent is sent to the distant space city of Alphaville where he must find a missing person and free the city from its tyrannical ruler.
Directed By: Jean-Luc Godard
Written By: Paul Éluard, Jean-Luc Godard
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
92
86% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
14% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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The “intellectual banalities” that bored Crowther are so insistently contemporary that “Alphaville” could have been made in 2023. If by some time-traveling Borgesian twist of fate it were, Godard’s film would have been my candidate for the year’s best.
Every decade or so, Godard’s film is revered all over again for everything it got right about the future. But for all its influence, Alphaville still looks and feels like no other movie. More than a prophecy, it is poetry.
Alphaville is more than quintessential Godard. Despite its age it's that rare science fiction film that doesn't seem to have dated at all.
Iconic in its very grain, the film toggles effortlessly between toast-dry farce and vogueing postwar hipitude, and like the balletic swimmers performing mid-pool state executions, it's a thing of insensible beauty.
Despite the fact that its pace turns somnolent at times, and some of its themes feel somewhat clichéd nearly a half-century on, this revival offers a fantastic entry-point opportunity to one of cinema's singular figures.
One of the most influential science fiction films that most people haven't seen, Jean-Luc Godard's 1965 Alphaville is a combination film noir, social satire and riff on tough-guy movies, set in a world of nearly nonstop night.
What it comes to is simply that the dazzle of Mr. Godard's cinematic style is not matched by the hackneyed idea of a robot society that is expounded in the script.
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Awards
Berlin International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Cahiers du Cinéma
• 1 Nomination
