Ivan Caution’s film delves into the bleak world of Alphaville, a place where adherence to logic is law and any deviation from it carries severe consequences. The population relies on medication, women are categorized based on their allure, and men function as instruments of the computer Alpha 60. The narrative bears an unsettling resemblance to contemporary issues, almost as if foretelling events to come. While dr…

Jean-Luc Godard’s 1965 movie ALPHAVILLE presents a truly strange concept for a motion picture. Godard takes Lemmy Caution, a tough FBI/secret agent portrayed by Eddie Constantine in several French low-budget films, and places him within a science-fiction story. Surprisingly, this film set in another galaxy doesn't rely on elaborate sets or futuristic weaponry. Instead, Godard filmed it using examples of modernist arc…