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Alphaville Reviews - Metacritic
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  • 1965
  • Not Rated
  • Athos Films
  • 1 h 39 m
  • 1965
  • Not Rated
  • Athos Films
  • 1 h 39 m
Alphaville

Summary A U.S. secret agent is sent to the distant space city of Alphaville where he must find a missing person and free the city from its tyrannical ruler.

Directed By: Jean-Luc Godard

Written By: Jean-Luc Godard, Paul Éluard

  • 1965
  • Not Rated
  • Athos Films
  • 1 h 39 m
  • 1965
  • Not Rated
  • Athos Films
  • 1 h 39 m

Alphaville

Metascore Universal Acclaim Based on 7 Critic Reviews
92
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 6 User Ratings
7.8
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Summary A U.S. secret agent is sent to the distant space city of Alphaville where he must find a missing person and free the city from its tyrannical ruler.

Directed By: Jean-Luc Godard

Written By: Jean-Luc Godard, Paul Éluard

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Metascore
Universal Acclaim Based on 7 Critic Reviews
92
86% Positive
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14% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Universal Acclaim Based on 7 Critic Reviews
92
86% Positive
6 Reviews
14% Mixed
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0% Negative
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100
The “intellectual banalities” that bored Crowther are so insistently contemporary that “Alphaville” could have been made in 2023. If by some time-traveling Borgesian twist of fate it were, Godard’s film would have been my candidate for the year’s best.
By J. Hoberman FULL REVIEW
100
Every decade or so, Godard’s film is revered all over again for everything it got right about the future. But for all its influence, Alphaville still looks and feels like no other movie. More than a prophecy, it is poetry.
By Bilge Ebiri FULL REVIEW
100
Apr 24, 2014
Alphaville is more than quintessential Godard. Despite its age it's that rare science fiction film that doesn't seem to have dated at all.
By Kenneth Turan FULL REVIEW
100
Feb 4, 2014
Iconic in its very grain, the film toggles effortlessly between toast-dry farce and vogueing postwar hipitude, and like the balletic swimmers performing mid-pool state executions, it's a thing of insensible beauty.
By Michael Atkinson FULL REVIEW
91
Feb 20, 2014
Despite the fact that its pace turns somnolent at times, and some of its themes feel somewhat clichéd nearly a half-century on, this revival offers a fantastic entry-point opportunity to one of cinema's singular figures.
By Marc Mohan FULL REVIEW
88
One of the most influential science fiction films that most people haven't seen, Jean-Luc Godard's 1965 Alphaville is a combination film noir, social satire and riff on tough-guy movies, set in a world of nearly nonstop night.
By Matt Zoller Seitz FULL REVIEW
50
What it comes to is simply that the dazzle of Mr. Godard's cinematic style is not matched by the hackneyed idea of a robot society that is expounded in the script.
By Bosley Crowther FULL REVIEW

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Generally Favorable Based on 6 User Ratings
7.8
67% Positive
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33% Mixed
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alejandro970
Mar 1, 2024
Sea como sea, aún cuando unos cuantos no sepan qué pasa en la trama, tiene bien ganado su status, a base de dar una nueva cara al género noir-policiaco, y convertirse en escuela para las futuras generaciones. Una de las que no hay que dejar escapar.
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Production Company André Michelin Productions, Filmstudio, Chaumiane, Athos Films
Release Date Oct 25, 1965
Duration 1 h 39 m
Rating Not Rated
Genres
Tagline The strange adventure of Lemmy Caution - secret agent of the future
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Awards

Berlin International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Cahiers du Cinéma
• 1 Nomination

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