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...cool, scar-faced tough guy, who goes around telling Division Three Seductresses, "Listen, baby, I'm old enough to find my own broads. So get lost." He is the character American actor Eddie Constantine created on French television after Constantine flopped in the U.S. Now he's Jean-Luc Godard's hero in the French auteur's latest flick to hit the Brattle's screen, "Alphaville...
...Brattle fans' real hero is Godard himself. Champion of love and poetry, foe of technology and sterility, Godard fights a never-ending battle for all sorts of aesthetic things that the computer which rules Alphaville, Alpha 60, just doesn't appreciate...
...movie is fun. Godard had fun making it. It probably took him about a month. And everyone at the Brattle had fun watching it, except the people in front of me, who left around two-thirds of the way through. They probably got a little bored of all the glaring Sensitivity versus Cybernetics. And that is a drawback of course. You can easily get bored about that time. But Godard pulls...
...about to blow up the Outerlands, Alphaville's enemy, when Caution, who has just escaped from the clutches of Alpha 60, bursts in and shoots him. Then there is a great chase scene with Caution's car chased around by two police cars -- all shot from directly overhead. Godard tosses in a few negative shots and Caution gets away, gets the girl and gets out of the place...
...standards he considers important. But the girl with whom he has run away turns out to be corrupt, and finally his love for her destroys him. Ferdinand has journeyed from one trap to another, and the realization of this is deeply disturbing. "Pierrot Le Fou" is an extension of Godard's preoccupation with the importance of human values in a world of emotional and intellectual bankruptcy. Godard's pessimistic attitude indirectly makes his lament more powerful than in his previous films, and in "Pierrot," Godard is working on a larger scale than before...