ALPHAVILLE: Une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution[ALPHAVILLE: A Strange Adventure of Lemmy Caution] (1965)

RATING:	80%
FORMAT:	DVD

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Clever science-fiction comedy about a dystopia where emotions are forbidden. Originally conceived as another Lemmy Caution thriller, this becomes a parody of same, as well as being an intelligent exploration of the nature of love in a soulless modern world of pointless rules and high-technology machines - particularly the supercomputer Alpha 60.

Eddie CONSTANTINE is perfect as the world-weary secret agent who looks unmistakeably like a classic Hollywood private detective. Anna KARINA’s luminous presence most clearly demonstrates the love affair between herself and the camera - as well as that between herself and the director (Jean-Luc Godard). She must struggle against the centralised brainwashing of this future state to utter the magic words of freedom: ‘I Love You’.

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