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Director: Writer: Producer: DP: Editor: Studio: Year: TRT: Language: Subtitles: Genre: Ratio: |
Alphaville Jean-Luc Godard Jean-Luc Godard Andre Michelin Raoul Coutard Agnes Guillemot Chaumiane Production-Film Studio 1965 99 min. Fench English Art House 1.33:1 |
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| Eddie Constantine Anna Karina Akim Tamiroff Howard Vernon |
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| Futuristic, dystopian, avant garde, new-wave, intergalactic spy story. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Although Truffaut is credited with launching the French New Wave, it is Godard who embodies the movement and most clearly represents its styles and reflects its attitudes and intentions. Watching anything by Godard is a learning experience, and Alphaville is certainly no exception. In fact, this is a terrific movie to begin the wade into the more challenging of Godard's films. It still has something which is reminiscent of a narrative, yet its approach is to ignore, mock, and accentuate all its narrative elements and devices. This is true art-house cinema, or as it might be referred to in film criticism, autuerist second-cinema (which distinguishes it from Hollywood, and first-cinema). It should be watched by anyone who enjoys mocking conventions of Hollywood, and those who are under the impression that independent film today is somehow critical of those conventions. |
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