Mjeteconer Just perfect...

VeteranLight I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Erica Derrick By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Rosie Searle It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Otavio Carvalho The most underrated sci-fi movie ever! I love dystopia histories since I was a kid, then this movie - summed up with the french touch to cinema and the amazing weird camera's positioning from Nouvelle Vague (especially to a sci-fi movie) - has made it one of my favorite movies of all times.And I confess that I was stoked when I found that he used a Borges citation in some scenes. Besides other references to my favorite writer.If I can share a little spoiler there, what most amaze me about Alpha 60 is the dichotomy between doesn't understanding poetry and actually citing them. Such a Borgian plot.Definitely a must watch.

antcol8 I am really afraid to say anything negative about this film, given the incredibly low level of critique demonstrated by the people here who didn't like it, but...I have never thought that this was anywhere near the best of his '60s films. But I jumped at the chance to see it on the big screen again yesterday. I hoped to revise my opinion. Which I did not.People who do not understand why the Paris of the moment when the film was made is used to represent a future dystopia should be condemned to never watching a film outside of the Mainstream ever again. The point is blindingly obvious: dystopia is all around us. Using music and lighting and camera movement to represent that, rather than relying on triumphantly gaudy and expensive production design, shows that Godard is a filmmaker down to the tips of his toes. He learned so much from the American directors who had no recourse to expensive sets and had to use shadows and fog...I'm thinking of Lang on Man Hunt, Mann on G - Men. Of course, Ulmer on Detour, etc.All this is amazing. And there are great set pieces (the swimming pool, for example). And the use of the same couple of bars of music, over and over, is great, too.Look, I don't need to believe in the relationships and the ideas in Godard films in order to enjoy them. Karina and Constantine was perhaps a very inspired mismatch. And I've read and studied lots of Brecht. But Alphaville just doesn't SWING for me the way most of the others from this time do. But, you know what? I'm going to watch it again.

Synthia Pop Is it trashy art or arty trash? Who cares? The cinematography is pure heaven. The soundtrack is a buzz (even the moments of total silence rock). And the swimming pool scene? Well...you gotta see it to believe it, man. Still an influence on modern film and music, including albums released in 2011 by Bryan Ferry and Hyperbubble, Alphaville rewards repeated viewings with clues that you can't believe you missed the first time. It's rough, but sweet...brainy, yet fun...totally clichéd, yet totally imaginative. I cherish every frame. In a world flooded with films created for the purely logical reason of making money, Alphaville's visit from a galaxy where movies are made for the love of film is always welcome.

Dalbert Pringle How do you spell "Alphaville"? Capital B-O-R-I-N-G! This movie was a sluggish, mind-numbingly dull snore-fest, if I've ever seen one.Set in the future (at an unspecified date), there was absolutely nothing at all "futuristic" about Alphaville in any way, shape, or form.I found Alphaville to basically be a staggeringly pretentious, 1960's, euro-trash mess. Filled with all sorts of idiotic symbolism, it completely lacked a coherent and worthwhile story enough to keep the viewer interested for more than just a few minutes at a time.Considered by many (I don't know why) to be very "avant-garde", Alphaville was directed by French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard who, in the 1960s, was literally churning out about 5 to 6 movies a year. So, just by that alone, you can get a pretty clear picture of exactly how much real thought and care was put into this film's story, its production and its overall character development.If nothing else, Alphaville is a really great sleeping pill that's sure to be of help to any of you frustrated insomniacs out there.Zzzzzzz! Nighty-Night!