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Stylized Atmospheric Clever Contemplative Gloomy Captivating Thought Provoking Mind Bending more...
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A.I.Investigation Human Nature Future Dystopia Crimes Imaginary Life is a Bitch Mind and Soul more...
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Sci-Fi Thriller Foreign Futuristic Neo Noir Drama
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Future
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Urban
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Award Winner Critically Acclaimed Essential Original Berlin Festival Winner Prestigious Awards Sundance Festival Winner
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Alphaville, 1965

Starring: Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina

Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard

Written by: Jean-Luc Godard

Language: French

Country: France, Italy

Runtime: 99 min

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Rating:7.2

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The mood of Alphaville is stylized, mind bending, and thought provoking. The plot centers around A.I., a future dystopia, and human nature. It is a foreign, thriller, and sci-fi movie. Stylistically, Alphaville is neo-noir. In approach, it is fantastical and serious. The pacing is slow. Alphaville takes place, at least partly, in an urban environment. Visually, it is black and white. It is based on a book. Alphaville is known for being a Sundance Festival winner, a Berlin festival winner, and original. Note that it includes brief nudity and mild violent content.

Summary of Alphaville

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, and intellectual themes, essentially redefines the apocalyptic science fiction genre. Alphaville, clearly the product of one of cinema's greatest contributors, is nothing less than a bona fide cult classic.

A bizarre space-chase across a glass and metal landscape of futuristic Paris--here called Alphaville--is the movie's premise. Creating a dystopian "tomorrow" characterized by alienation and cold corporate comforts, Godard slyly suggests that the future is now. Secret agent man Lemmy Caution (Eddie Constantine) travels across the expanses of intergalactic space and time to uncover the fate of his missing predecessor. Working under the alias of Ivan Johnson, Caution is accompanied in his quest by the lovely Natasha Vonbraun (Anna Karina), the daughter of a supposedly missing professor. Caution later discovers that the elder Vonbraun is the mastermind behind Alpha 60--the rigid, masterful computer that governs Alphaville. Alpha's job is to crush individuality, eradicating any human being who does not conform. Ultimately, Lemmy is left with no other choice but to destroy the calculating chip-and-wire monolith, with the only weapons he has left: his heart and soul.