Alphaville

Name: Alphaville
Genre: Sci-Fi, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Released: October 25, 1965
Duration: 99 min
Rating: 92
Cast: Akim Tamiroff, Anna Karina, Christa Lang, Eddie Constantine, Jean-Andr

1965

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Rialto Pictures | Release Date: October 25, 1965 | Not Rated

Starring: Akim Tamiroff, Anna Karina, Christa Lang, Eddie Constantine, Jean-Andr, Jean-Louis Comolli, Jean-Pierre Léaud, László Szabó, Michel Delahaye, Valérie Boisgel

Summary: A U.S. secret agent is sent to the distant space city of Alphaville where he must find a missing person and free the city from its tyrannical ruler.

Director: Jean-Luc Godard

Genre(s): Sci-Fi, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 99 min

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100

Kenneth Turan

Apr 24, 2014

Alphaville is more than quintessential Godard. Despite its age it's that rare science fiction film that doesn't seem to have dated at all. Read full review

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Bilge Ebiri

Every decade or so, Godard’s film is revered all over again for everything it got right about the future. But for all its influence, Alphaville still looks and feels like no other movie. More than a prophecy, it is poetry. Read full review

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J. Hoberman

The “intellectual banalities” that bored Crowther are so insistently contemporary that “Alphaville” could have been made in 2023. If by some time-traveling Borgesian twist of fate it were, Godard’s film would have been my candidate for the year’s best. Read full review

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Michael Atkinson

Feb 4, 2014

Iconic in its very grain, the film toggles effortlessly between toast-dry farce and vogueing postwar hipitude, and like the balletic swimmers performing mid-pool state executions, it's a thing of insensible beauty. Read full review

Marc Mohan

Feb 20, 2014

Despite the fact that its pace turns somnolent at times, and some of its themes feel somewhat clichéd nearly a half-century on, this revival offers a fantastic entry-point opportunity to one of cinema's singular figures. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Matt Zoller Seitz

One of the most influential science fiction films that most people haven't seen, Jean-Luc Godard's 1965 Alphaville is a combination film noir, social satire and riff on tough-guy movies, set in a world of nearly nonstop night. Read full review

Bosley Crowther

What it comes to is simply that the dazzle of Mr. Godard's cinematic style is not matched by the hackneyed idea of a robot society that is expounded in the script. Read full review

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