Alphaville
Jean-Luc Godard – The Spirit of the Forms
October 9 - 31, 2013
Godard’s hard-boiled sci-fi hymn to love and savage attack on the impersonality of modern life takes place in a visually abstracted Paris ca. 1964, refracted through 1940s Hollywood.
“Humble secret agent” Lemmy Caution (Eddie Constantine) arrives from the Outlands in Alphaville, the becalmed territory ruled by the computer Alpha 60 where “No one has ever lived in the past, no one will ever live in the future, the present is the form of all life.” When Caution meets Natacha Von Braun (Anna Karina), the forbidden, illogical power of love opens the path to liberation. All of science fiction is a commentary on the present by way of an imagined future; Godard visually abstracted the Paris of 1964 by way of 1940s Hollywood in order to foreground its smoothly engineered consumer-driven impersonality. Alphaville is presented in a new DCP from Rialto Pictures.
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