Amazing 60's sci-fi, all done without special effects. The lead character Lemmy Caution was a french created American spy hero, who Jean Luc Godard re-imagines as an intergallactic spy who goes to Alphaville; a planet/city/state where emotions and ideas like "why" are replaced with "because". Godard fills this new pulp dimension with mentions of "Flash Gordon" and "Dick Tracy" as fellow Outworld agents like Caution. There are a lot of amazing scenes, the executions with the bikini girls with shark knives being one of the best. The romanitc oblique dialogue almost got too much for me, but works in keeping with the overall poetic themes of the the film. Not your average sci-fi, but beautiful conceptual noir. A true original from a great director.
Review of Alphaville
