movie poster for ALPHAVILLE

Flicks ID

4647

Cert

PG

Running time

94 mins

Country

Language

Format

DVD

ALPHAVILLE (1965)

JEAN-LUC GODARD

Plot

Godard's bleak sci-fi noir, with the stony-faced gumshoe Lemmy Caution turning inter-galactic agent to re-enact the legend of Orpheus and Eurydice in conquering Alpha 60, the strange automated city where such emotions as love and tenderness are banished. A brilliantly realised and stylish satire on the dehumanising nature of technology.