ALPHAVILLE, UNE ETRANGE AVENTURE DE LEMMY CAUTION

33° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
THINGS TO COME

ALPHAVILLE, UNE ETRANGE AVENTURE DE LEMMY CAUTION

ALPHAVILLE
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

(Paris, France, 1930 – Rolle, Switzerland, 2022) was one of the leading figures of the French New Wave, as well as one of the most radical and rigorous innovators of cinematic language. A tireless experimenter with forms, techniques and formats, he was a true thinker who used images to investigate the mechanisms of language, representation, speech and knowledge. A militant critic for Cahiers du Cinéma in the 1950s, he made his debut as a director with the epoch-making Breathless (1960) and from that moment on remained a point of reference for all filmmakers and film lovers around the world.

FILMOGRAFIA

Opération béton (cm 1954), Une femme coquette (cm, 1954), Tous les garçons s’appellent Patrick (cm, 1957), Charlotte et son Jules (1958), Une histoire d’eau (coregia François Truffaut, cm, 1958), 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 petit soldat (1963), Les Carabiniers (1963), Le Mépris (Il disprezzo, 1963), Bande à part (id., 1964), Une Femme mariée (Una donna sposata, 1964), Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution (Agente Lemmy Caution: missione Alphaville, 1965), Pierrot le fou (Il bandito delle 11, 1965), Masculin féminin (Il maschio e la femmina, 1966), Made in USA (Una storia americana, 1966), Deux ou trois choses que je sais d’elle (Due o tre cose che so di lei, 1967), La Chinoise (La cinese, 1967), Weekend (Week End - Una donna e un uomo da sabato a domenica, 1967), Le gai savoir (La gaia scienza, 1969), Le Vent d’est (Vento dell’est, 1969), Lotte in Italia (1971), Vladimir et Rosa (1970), Tout va bien (Crepa padrone, tutto va bene, 1972), Numéro deux (1975), Numéro deux (1975), Ici et ailleurs (1976), Six fois deux (tv, 1977), France, tour détour deux enfants, tv, 1977), Comment ça va? (1978), Sauve qui peut (la vie) (Si salvi chi può-La vita, 1980), Lettre à Freddy Buache (cm, 1982), Changer d’image (cm, 1982), Passion (id., 1982), Prénom Carmen (id., 1983), Je vous salue, Marie (id., 1985), Détective (Detective, 1985), Soigne ta droite (Cura la tua destra, 1987), Histoire(s) du cinéma (TV, 1989-1998), Nouvelle vague (id., 1990), Allemagne 90 neuf zéro (Germania nove zero, 1991), Hélas pour moi (1993), For Ever Mozart (1996), Éloge de l’amour (2001), Notre Musique (2004), Prières pour Refusniks I-II (cm, 2004) , Film socialisme (id., 2010), Adieu au langage (Addio al linguaggio, 2014), Le livre d’image (2018).

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
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