aka Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution. Dick Tracy on Mars.Lemmy Caution (Eddie Constantine), an American private-eye posing as a journalist, travels to Alphaville, a futuristic city on another planet. He has a variety of tasks to perform whilst there; to find a missing agent, catch or kill the creator of alphaville and destroy the computer controlling Alphaville. To do this Caution enlists the assistance of Natacha Von Braun (Anna Karina), one of the computers programmers and the daughter of Von Braun, the mad scientist creator of Alphaville that Eddie is tasked to kill.
A spoof of American film noir detectives, this French New Wave film was shot without special effects in bleak modern Paris. It places the familiar hard bitten detective in unfamiliar surroundings and spends long swaths of the film on existential talk. A classic if you can take all the theorising.
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