I wrote my critique on Alphaville as part of my final assignment for CMCL 398: Post Nouvelle-Vague French Cinema.
Jean-Luc Godard’s film Alphaville (Alphaville, une
étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution, 1965) is about an American secret agent
named Lemmy Caution (Eddie Constantine) who arrives in
the futuristic city of the same name. While there, he falls in love with the
mad scientist Von Braun’s daughter Natasha (Anna Karina). Natasha, like the other city’s inhabitants, is
being controlled by her father’s (Howard Vernon)
creation: the smart robot Alpha 60. Alpha 60 outlaws love and self expression. Alphaville is an excellent example of
Godard’s tongue-in-cheek humor and counter-cinema ideas as he experiments
mixing film genres, technical elements such as camera work and lighting, and
plot elements.
This scene is my favorite from the film:
This is the original trailer from the film:
You can read my take on Alphaville here.
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