Alphaville, une Étrange Aventure de Lemmy Caution (1965)
Genre: Scifi / Drama
Duration: 99 minuten
Alternative titles: Alphaville, a Strange Adventure of Lemmy Caution / Tarzan vs. IBM / Agente Lemmy Caution: Missione Alphaville / Dick Tracy on Mars
Country:
France / Italy
Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard
Stars: Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina and Akim Tamiroff
IMDb score:
6,9 (30.257)
Releasedate: 5 May 1965
Alphaville, une Étrange Aventure de Lemmy Caution plot
"Suddenly the word is Alphaville... and a secret agent is in a breathless race against the Masters of the Future."
Lemmy Caution is an American detective who one day arrives in the futuristic city of Alphaville on another planet. However, his character clashes with local laws, which prohibit love and self-fulfillment.
Actors and actresses
Lemmy Caution
Natacha von Braun
Henri Dickson
Prof. Leonard Nosferatu, aka von Braun (uncredited)
1st Seductress Third Class (uncredited)
2nd Seductress Third Class (uncredited)
Prof. Jeckell (uncredited)
Prof. Heckell (uncredited)
Chief Engineer (uncredited)
Breakfast Waiter (uncredited)
Reviews & comments
Fisico
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- 10039 messages
- 5398 votes
In itself an interesting film with an intriguing concept, but it really didn't interest me very much because I couldn't get into the fantasy of the desolate-looking SF, because I didn't see very much SF. What nonsense, that is, but visually I also remained hungry. Certainly not a bad film that looks more like film noir than SF.
Not very accessible film, but intriguing and atmospheric. Dilm with two faces. One I'll have to revisit to really appreciate it.
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Sergio Leone
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- 4479 messages
- 3157 votes
Phew.
Le Mépris made me crave more of Jean-Luc Godard, but all the good that that film has to offer is no longer to be found in this one. With Alphaville, Godard makes another project: a collection of a whole heap of (good) ideas that have been thrown together, but together they do not produce a good film at all.
In my opinion, Alphaville works best as a parody of film noir. Eddie Constantine does well in his lead role and co-star Anna Karina is also very attractive. Godard also knows how to portray beauties like Karina.
But other than that I can do very little with this. Again, it's much ado about nothing. The dystopian sauce by no means makes for an interesting film, even though with more film experience I might have recognized a lot of references. Now all that remains is a somewhat dull parody, full of uninteresting chatter. Visually, Godard occasionally brings his nice Nouvelle Vague tricks, but there is no real mature look in it.
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De filosoof
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- 2570 messages
- 1760 votes
If Godard is making a science fiction movie, you already know it won't be a conventional science fiction movie. In fact, the movie doesn't even look like a science fiction movie because it was just filmed in Paris in 1965, eg taking an interstellar journey through a car ride. That not only keeps the film low budget, but also has a function now that the message of the film seems to be that only the present exists and that time is circular with past and future mirroring each other; reality is not a straight line but even a maze. Nevertheless, the film presents us with a dystopia that is still current: in spite of previous insight, man wants to plan everything so that he builds a technocation where everything is determined by logic and a supercomputer. It is a totalitarian state in which illogical actions – such as showing emotion – are punishable by death and even words referring to feelings and the like are – in the spirit of Orwell's 1984 – prohibited. Alphaville is the capital of the galaxy where mutants live who consider themselves to be completely rationally superior to the humans ('foreigners') it therefore wants to destroy. The film follows a secret agent who is determined to save humanity or poetry against the mutants or logic and he has a romance with a beautiful mutant: within dystopia and social criticism there is thus again the typical film noir with gangsters and gangsters fighting each other. beautiful but dangerous women.
The film is not one of Godard's strongest, but it is nevertheless special in the combination of themes, the sharp social criticism and the amount of science fiction films that the film anticipates.
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