Alphaville 1965 M
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Production still from Alphaville 1965 / Director: Jean Luc-Godard / Image courtesy: StudioCanal Australia / View full image
When
3.10pm, Sun 5 May 2024 (99 mins)Where
Gallery of Modern Art & Cinema A
Accessibility
- Wheelchair Accessible
About
In this stylish, dystopian sci-fi by French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard, humans are ruled by the technological devices of their own making: in Alphaville it’s a dictatorial, artificial intelligence Alpha 60. The super computer has outlawed free thought and emotions presiding over public executions for infringements such as weeping at the death of a spouse. Lemmy Caution, celebrated journalist-cum-detective from the ‘outlands’, infiltrates the futuristic city on a mission to eliminate the inventor of the computer Professor von Braun. His investigations lead him to von Braun’s beguiling and captivating daughter played by the ever-luminous Anna Karina. Eschewing conventions of outlandish sets and uncanny aliens, Jean Luc Godard instead sets his sci-fi in a near-identical world to our own examining the philosophical underpinnings of civilisation, the importance of freedom and the mystery of love.
M | Moderate themes and violence
Production Credits
- Director: Jean-Luc Godard
- Script: Jean-Luc Godard
- Cinematographer: Raoul Coutard
- Editor: Agnès Guillemot
- Cast: Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina, Akim Tamiroff
- Print Source: StudioCanal Australia
- Rights: StudioCanal Australia
- Year: 1965
- Runtime: 99 minutes
- Country: France
- Language: French
- Subtitles: English
- Colour: Black & White
- Shooting Format: 35mm
- Screening Format: Restored DCP