A perfect example of Godard shaking up convention and exploring new ways of making cinema, Alphaville is challenging in places and thematically familiar in others.
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05/29/07
Alphaville (1965)
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Reviews Counted:23
Fresh:20
Rotten:3
Average Rating:8/10
Consensus: While Alphaville is by no means a conventional sci-fi film, Jean-Luc Godard creates a witty, noir-ish future all his own.
Runtime: 1 hr 40 mins
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Synopsis: 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... [More]
Starring: Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina, Akim Tamiroff, Howard Vernon
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Reviews for Alphaville
Top CriticOne of Godard's most sheerly enjoyable movies, a dazzling amalgam of film noir and science fiction.
06/24/06
Top CriticGodard's avoidance of conventional science fiction architecture, in favour of what was actually available within Paris 1965, is his way of commenting on the city, what it was doing to its inhabitants, and what they were in danger of becoming.
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03/26/09
Top CriticUnforgettable.
09/13/07
It remains an outstanding example of the filmmaker's power to transform an environment through the selection of detail: everything in it is familiar, but nothing is recognizable.
05/29/07
New Wave classic. Set bold new standards. Whatever.
08/29/05
No review available.
06/12/05
Mr. Godard's conclusion that love -- good old love -- conquers all is a curiously disappointing finish for such an initially promising film.
05/09/05
Top CriticNo review available.
11/12/04
No review available.
06/25/04
This cold war allegorical sci-fi film is imaginatively made and proves that sometimes the most mundane images can become dazzling in the right context.
04/29/04
Packed to the brim with imagination, particularly the insane 2nd half.
12/22/03
It works both as a philosophical treatise on politics and film as well as an entertaining and often amusing look at a future overrun by technology.
10/10/03
No review available.
08/22/03
No review available.
08/17/03
A poetic, funny, and visually inspired blend of sci-fi, detective-film satire, and political allegory.
07/30/03
Top CriticEsta fascinante mistura de noir, 1984 e Admirável Mundo Novo filosofa, como Solaris faria sete anos depois, sobre a natureza do homem e suas contradições.
07/25/03
No review available.
06/26/03
Godard's masterpiece of French new-wave cinema. Essential viewing.
02/11/03
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