About
Alphaville

"Something's not in orbit in the capitol of this galaxy." There is something unavoidably quaint about Godard's essay in hard-boiled sf dystopia, but Alphaville wears its goofiness on its sleeve, and it loses no points for being dated. Kitsch it ain't -- not really, and not only because it's put together with the expected impeccable style. The fact is that we need its surprisingly hokey humanism now more than ever.