ALPHAVILLE
| 1965 – 99′ – Drama, Crime, Sci-Fi, Classic, Film & Literature.
Written by: Jean-Luc Godard.
Based on the Book by: Paul Eluard.
Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard.
Starring: Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina, Akim Tamiroff, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Howard Vernon, Michel Delahaye, Jean-Louis Comolli, Jean-Andre Fieschi.
Official Selection Berlin International Film Festival 1965 (Winner Golden Bear).
In French with English subtitles.
A Kino Lorber release. |
From Jean-Luc Godard, the influential director of “Breathless”, “Contempt”, “Band of Outsiders” and “Pierrot Le Fou”. American secret agent Lemmy Caution (Eddie Constantine,”Attack of the Robots”) is sent to the distant space city of Alphaville where he must find a missing person and kill the inventor of fascist computer Alpha 60. Anna Karina (“The Nun”) and Akim Tamiroff (“After the Fox”) co-star in this cockeyed fusion of science-fiction with pulp characters and surrealist poetry. Godard’s irreverent journey to the mysterious Alphaville remains one of the least conventional films of all time. Beautifully shot in glorious black-and-white by Raoul Coutard (“Jules and Jim”, “First Name: Carmen”).