33° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
THINGS TO COME
ALPHAVILLE, UNE ETRANGE AVENTURE DE LEMMY CAUTION
by Jean-Luc Godard
Country: France, Italy
Year: 1965
Duration: 99'
Noir overlaps with sci-fi: in an unspecified future, agent Lemmy Caution, from the novels by Peter Cheyney (played for the eighth time by Eddie Constantine), is sent on a mission by the newspaper “Figaro-Pravda” to a city in another galaxy where life is regulated by the computer Alpha 60, which has outlawed all emotion. The city’s name is Alphaville but it’s really Paris: Godard plays with genres, politics, dehumanization, alienation and the growing loss of cultural and emotional reference points in Paris’ new, modern neighborhoods.
Biography
film director
Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard (Paris, 1930) is one of the absolute protagonists of the Nouvelle Vague, first as a militant film critic for “Cahiers du cinéma” during the 1950s, then as a director, right from his debut with Breathless (1960). Over the course of a career which has lasted almost fifty years, Godard has established himself as one of the most radical and rigorous innovators of the film language.
FILMOGRAFIA
À bout de souffle (Fino all’ultimo respiro, 1960), Une Femme est une femme (La donna è donna, 1961), Vivre sa vie (Questa è la mia vita, 1962), Le Mépris (Il disprezzo, 1963), Une Femme mariée (Una donna sposata, 1964), Pierrot le fou (Il bandito delle undici, 1965), Made in USA (Una storia americana, 1966), La Chinoise (La cinese, 1967), Lotte in Italia (1971), Tout va bien (Crepa padrone, tutto va bene, 1972), Numéro deux (1975), Ici et ailleurs (1976), Comment ça va? (1978), Sauve qui peut (la vie) (Si salvi chi può-La vita, 1980), Passion (id., 1982), Prénom Carmen (id., 1983), Je vous salue, Marie (id., 1985), Soigne ta droite (Cura la tua destra, 1987), Histoire(s) du cinéma (TV, 1989-1998), Nouvelle vague (id., 1990), Hélas pour moi (1993), For Ever Mozart (1996), Éloge de l’amour (2001), Notre Musique (2004), Prières pour Refusniks I-II (2004) , Film socialisme (2010), Adieu au langage (Addio al linguaggio, 2014).
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura/director, screenplay
Jean-Luc Godard
soggetto/story
dal poema/from the poem Capitale de la douleur di/by Paul Éluard
fotografia/cinematography
Raoul Coutard
montaggio/film editing
Agnès Guillemot
musica/music
Paul Misraki
scenografia/production design
Pierre Guffroy
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Eddie Constantine (Lemmy Caution), Anna Karina (Natacha von Braun), Akim Tamiroff (Henri Dickson)
produttore/producer
André Michelin
produzione/production
Athos Films, Chaumiane, Filmstudio
Jean-Luc Godard
soggetto/story
dal poema/from the poem Capitale de la douleur di/by Paul Éluard
fotografia/cinematography
Raoul Coutard
montaggio/film editing
Agnès Guillemot
musica/music
Paul Misraki
scenografia/production design
Pierre Guffroy
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Eddie Constantine (Lemmy Caution), Anna Karina (Natacha von Braun), Akim Tamiroff (Henri Dickson)
produttore/producer
André Michelin
produzione/production
Athos Films, Chaumiane, Filmstudio
