Alphaville, a Strange Adventure of Lemmy Caution
Alphaville
Jean-Luc Godard
Lemmy Caution, secret agent 003, investigates Alphaville disguised as a journalist for the newspaper Figaro-Pravda. Alphaville is a city dominated by technology, controlled by a computer called Alpha 60, and a place where public executions are a regular occurrence. There, words of moral conscience, of the past and future, or of love and poetry lose their meaning and are removed from the dictionary.
With : Eddi Constantine, Anna Karina, Akim Tamiroff, Howard Vernon, Laszlo Szabo, Michel Delahaye, Jean-André Fieschi, Jean-Louis Comolli, Jean-Luc Godard
Screenplay : Jean-Luc Godard
Image : Raoul Coutard
Sound : René Levert
Music : Paul Misraki
Editing : Agnès Guillemot
Screenplay : Jean-Luc Godard
Image : Raoul Coutard
Sound : René Levert
Music : Paul Misraki
Editing : Agnès Guillemot
Production : André Michelin, Chaumiane Production (Paris), Film Studio (Rome)
Distribution: Ciné-Classic
Distribution: Ciné-Classic
"Godard admired Fritz Lang. With Alphaville, he wanted to make his own Metropolis. But contrary to Lang, he didn't build an expensive imaginary city, he quite simply used Paris photographed from clever angles, particularly at night, easily putting together nightmarish scenes, trying to find a modern décor by filming in factories or electronics workshops." (M. Durand) "It's a contemporary film, but about the future in the way that today's future inevitably becomes tomorrow's present. In short, the film is about the presence of the future." (J.L. Godard)