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Alphaville 99 minutes, France/Italy (1965), PG
(4.0)
Rating: 4.0 Stars
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Hard-boiled Alphaville stars Eddie Constantine

Jean-Luc Godard sends Eddie Constantine into space in this thoughtful amalgam of science fiction and hard-boiled noir

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Alphaville: American-born actor Eddie Constantine had made a name for himself in the 1960s playing the tough detective Lemmy Caution in a series of French films that imitated American-style, Humphrey Bogart noir. Jean-Luc Godard kept this screen persona intact when he cast Constantine as Caution once more in Alphaville, his stylised, futuristic homage to hard-boiled fiction...
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