Godard once famously said..all you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun...well thaat may have been so in his world but the reality is , it may take afew more elements to make a movie work. Thankfully "Alphaville" has those other elements that make it work and, make it a truly odd and unnerving cinema experience.
Borrowing heavily from both "1984" and "A Brave New World". The film hangs, quite literally on the face of the main character Lemmy Caution, played by American/French actor/singer Eddie Constantine. This is no ordinary face, it's a sort of bull frog with acne scars and black eye's, simply put... mesmerizing.
Lemmy is sent, through intergalactic space to Alphaville to find missing agent Henry Dickson and bring back or kill the mysterious Professor Von Braun, creator of Alphaville. As if that's not enough, he also has to destroy Alphaville 60, the autocratic computer that controls Alphaville and it's inhabitants.
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