蜜芽传媒

Jean-Luc Godard's only sci-fi picture, Alphaville, is a film noir set on a planet where emotion is forbidden and the life of the inhabitants is controlled by the harsh, rasping voice of the supercomputer Alpha 60.

Eddie Constantine plays Lemmy Caution, a secret agent from the 'Outlands' who falls somewhere between gumshoe and gangster. Posing as a journalist, his aim is to destroy Alpha 60. He meets Natasha Von Braun, played by Karina, daughter of the man who built the computer - and falls in love with her. This emotional response throws her in to turmoil and ultimately leads to the success of Caution's mission.

Godard's genius, as Anna tells us, was to shoot the film in Paris, at night, with no special sets or sci-fi tropes other than Brutalist architecture and oppressive darkness. To pull this off he used a new high-speed black and white film stock for the first time, giving the movie a high contrast otherworldly look.

Film by Spike Geilinger and Cinestre Films for 蜜芽传媒 Arts.