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Has anyone seen Alphaville?

The other night I watched Alphaville as part of an effort to watch movies that I always heard were good, but I had avoided for some reason or another.

I really enjoyed the movie, but found myself confused and it took me a long time to realize why. I was watching a science fiction movie with no visual effects.

Despite being set in the future, Alphaville was clearly Paris and everyone was dressed in 60s fashions and driving 60s cars. The characters talk about traveling from galaxy to galaxy, but seem to do it by driving on highways.

Has anyone else been confused by this disconnect that Godard clearly intended?

Re:Has anyone seen Alphaville?

unclefestering:

The other night I watched Alphaville as part of an effort to watch movies that I always heard were good, but I had avoided for some reason or another.

I really enjoyed the movie, but found myself confused and it took me a long time to realize why. I was watching a science fiction movie with no visual effects.

Despite being set in the future, Alphaville was clearly Paris and everyone was dressed in 60s fashions and driving 60s cars. The characters talk about traveling from galaxy to galaxy, but seem to do it by driving on highways.

Has anyone else been confused by this disconnect that Godard clearly intended?

Godard is strange like that I think.  Actually I've only seen one of his movies, Breathless.  And it turned me off enough not have have sought out any of his other movies after that.  Although if there was one movie I was interested in seeing of his next it actually was Alphaville.

Do you like any of his other films?