Movie Information
Overall Rank: 1757
Average Rating: 2.9/4
# of Ratings: 44
Theatrical Release Date: 05/05/1965
Language: French
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Actors: Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina, Akim Tamiroff
Plot: A American detective is sent to a distant planet where logic rules but emotion and freedom has been suppressed. His intrusion threatens to bring Alphaville down. -- Chris Kavan
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4/4
SIngli6 - wrote on 06/27/2012
Taxing, if not wholly impenetrable, yet still somehow masterful.
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3/4
Chris Kavan - wrote on 03/14/2012
A noir and sci-fi film rolled into one, Jean-Luc Godard presents a society run by pure logic vs. a detective goes by his own terms. No special effects to speak of, but the future it portends is still quite terrifying. It may not be flashy, but it is certainly effective.
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4/4
mitchellyoung - wrote on 09/15/2010
A noirish and inventively visual science fiction film that is an underrated Godard masterpiece.
Full Movie Reviews
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4/4
Alphaville & Hitler's Barcoded Moustache!
Filmhaus - wrote on 04/15/2021
Semiotics (the study of signs and symbols and their use or interpretation) was my bread and butter in college as a Visual Communications & Design Major.
I discovered early on that people are wired to connect meaning between images shown side by side, regardless of whether they mean to or not. An example of this was when I turned Hitler's moustache into a barcode for an art project, and my professor gave me an "A."
But I'd have been hard-pressed to tell you what it meant.
One person might have come the conclusion I meant to imply demagogues are a product of social commercialism, while another might have thought I was making a statement about the quantification of the natural world into numbers as form of fascist oppression.
However, the truth was much simpler.
For me, …
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