'Alphaville' is the kind of vibrant and exciting film that deeply enamours me to the French New Wave. It's immediately apparent that Godard had a lot of fun with this film, and his 'anything goes' attitude allows for some creative and innovate ideas which lighten the mood and make 'Alphaville' a wonderfully fresh film.

Godard splices noir and mystery with sci-fi and creates something unique and fascinating in 'Alphaville'. Noir protagonists are known for their strong moral codes, and in…

Godard does sci-fi on a French New Wave kind of budget. Sounds like a joke but it actually worked and worked well. The film began slow but I found myself as it went on being drug into the story and atmosphere. I still found it most amazing that Godard shoots this most likely in France like all of his films with nothing futuristic, no special effects, nothing out of the ordinary from our world but was still able to successfully…

There is a mistake that clever people sometimes make. That mistake is to think "I don't know much about science fiction but I get the general idea about using it to present an idea in an allegorical way and it looks pretty straightforward so I think I'll give it a go." Hal Hartley fell into this trap and his The Girl From Monday was so bad on so many levels that it's actually poisoned his other films for me now.…

Bored as I am by standard sci-fi effects, Godard's French New Wave-noir experiment with the genre does seem like the perfect way for me to watch it. Neither am I terribly fond of dystopias (having overdosed on them in book form when I was younger). Here the black and white, French language and Nouvelle Vague style made this one less profoundly unnerving, but still I rightly experienced a stab of upset whenever the cruelties of the Alphaville regime were most…

In my opinion, the undercurrent of Jean-Luc Godard's first fifteen features (produced within the span of a mere seven year) was the battle between the head and the heart. In the beginning, Godard still held strong ties to the traditional Hollywood cinema he had grown up on and devoured via the Cinémathèque Française. Sure there were lots of highfalutin references to philosophers and poets, but it was still possible for a mainstream audience to get invested in the characters and…

I watched this for my French class, and I'm really wishing I had picked another film. It's not a terrible film, but when it was finished, all I could say was, "What did I just see?". Given, Godard is not for everyone, and I really liked what I saw from Breathless and Contempt, but Alphaville is just too strange.

First off, the narration was incredibly annoying. I don't see any artistic element from it. He was pushing for a robotic…

Alphaville, Jean-Luc Godard's first and only (that I'm aware of) foray into the world of science fiction, is about a dystopic city, set an undefined number of years in the future on another planet, where our main character Lemmy Caution has just arrived from the ambiguous "Lands Without." Posing as a journalist, he checks into a hotel which offers complementary, unthinking prostitutes. He soon starts to ask questions and it becomes apparent he isn't quite who he says he is.…