Alphaville (1965)
With Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina, Akim Tamiroff, Howard Vernon, Jean-Louis Comolli, Jean-Pierre Léaud, László Szabó, Michel Delahaye
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard
Alphaville (subtitled Une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution, "A Strange Adventure of Lemmy Caution") is a 1965 French New Wave tech noir film written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard, and starring Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina and Akim Tamiroff. The film combines the genres of dystopian science fiction and film noir. There are no special props or futuristic sets: instead, the film was shot in real locations in Paris, the night-time streets of the capital becoming the streets of Alphaville, while modernist glass and concrete buildings (which in 1965 were new and strange architectural designs) represent the city's interiors. Although the film is set in the future, the technologies used and the
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