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Alphaville

Screening on Film
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard.
With Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina, Akim Tamiroff.
France/Italy, 1965, 35mm, black & white, 100 min.
French with English subtitles.

This classic of the French New Wave cinema is a dazzling amalgam of film noir and science fiction that features tough gumshoe Lemmy Caution (Constantine) as an intergalactic agent sent to conquer Alpha 60, a strange city from which love and tenderness have been banished. Godard pursues his theme of alienation in a technological society by turning contemporary Paris into an icily dehumanized city of the future.

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