violentwavesofemotion:Alphaville (1965) dir. by Jean-Luc Godard: “Anna Karina, meanwhile, is at her
violentwavesofemotion:Alphaville (1965) dir. by Jean-Luc Godard: “Anna Karina, meanwhile, is at her most darkly luminous as Natasha von Braun, the great leader’s daughter. Her programmed responses slowly break down as the hardboiled detective gives his “pretty sphinx” a copy of poet Paul Eluard’s Capital of Pain and introduces her to the concepts of “conscience” and “love” – words with which she is unfamiliar, since they have been progressively redacted from the dictionary that is the Bible of her father’s totalitarian state.This was Godard’s ninth feature film in six years, a rate of production resembling that of Beatles albums. There are signs of haste and improvisation, so Alphaville is much the better for its ability to make us think and trigger our feelings.“ (x) -- source link
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