Alphaville
New York Film Festival Essentials
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1h 39m
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard • Sci-Fi • 1965 • France • French with English subtitles
Starring Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina, Akim Tamiroff
Influential director Jean-Luc Godard’s irreverent journey to the mysterious “Alphaville” remains one of the least conventional films of all time. American secret agent Lemmy Caution (Eddie Constantine) is sent to the distant space city where he must find a missing person and kill the inventor of fascist computer Alpha 60. Anna Karina and Akim Tamiroff co-star in this cockeyed science-fiction.
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