Pros: An entertaining patchwork of gumshoe noir, science fiction, and romance Cons: Some raggedness in each square of the quilt
As I begin this review of Jean-Luc Godard’s Alphaville, I sense that I could make a pretty coherent case here for any rating between 2 stars and 5 stars for this film without telling a single lie or being unfaithful to my personal reaction to ...
Pros: Intellectual but accessible. Cons: Alpha 60 needs some serious concentration if you're reading subtitles.
Alphaville is generally reckoned to be one of Jean-Luc Godard's best efforts. This is in fact debatable. However, the fact that the science-fiction genre has hemmed Godard into a more or less conventional narrative structure does mean that the...
Pros: amazingly dense and complex Cons: too dense and complex for most
There’s a sign that greats visitors to Jean-Luc Godard’s technocratic dystopia that reads: “Welcome to Alphaville: Science, Logic, Security, Prudence.” Each term is one half of a binary system – we all recognize that, but if we don’t articulate it at...
Pros: Let me think......some interesting lighting effects? Cons: Boring. Wordy. Dry. Melodramatic. Psuedo-intellectual nonsense. Subtitles.
At one point in this deeply boring movie, the hard-bitten detective protagonist proclaims, "This isn't Alphaville, it's Zeroville" He couldn't be more right.
Alphaville is a French film about a futuristic dystopian society that apparently...
With 1965's ALPHAVILLE--part sci-fi action film, part noir thriller--the acclaimed French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard achieves a stunningly clin...More at Meijer
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