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</div> <div class="title-subtitle"><h1 class="post-title post-item-title">Review: Jean-Luc Godard’s ‘Alphaville’ on KL Studio Classics 4K UHD Blu-ray</h1><div class="post-item-subtitle post-header-section"><p>Godard’s sci-fi curio makes the leap to UHD with a revelatory 4K presentation.</p></div></div> <div class="post-item-meta wi-meta fox-meta post-header-section "> <div class="fox-meta-author entry-author meta-author" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><span class="byline"> by <a class="url fn" itemprop="url" rel="author" href="https://www.slantmagazine.com/author/jcole/">Jake Cole</a></span></div> <div class="entry-date meta-time machine-time time-short"><time class="published updated" itemprop="datePublished" datetime="2024-08-04T13:29:22-04:00">August 4, 2024</time></div> <a href="https://www.slantmagazine.com/dvd/alphaville-4k-uhd-blu-ray-review-jean-luc-godard/#respond" class="comment-link" ><span class="comment-icon"><i class="fa fa-comment-alt"></i></span></a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </header> <div class="single-body single-section"> <div class="single-section single-main-content enable-dropcap"> <div class="entry-container"> <div class="content-main"> <div class="dropcap-content columnable-content article-content entry-content single-component"> <p><img data-perfmatters-preload decoding="async" class="alignleft wp-image-10010052" src="https://cdn.shortpixel.ai/spai/q_glossy+ret_img+to_auto/www.slantmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/alphaville4k.jpg" data-spai-egr="1" alt="Alphaville" width="315">Much has been said of the overwhelming ingenuity of Jean-Luc Godard’s early films, but less so about just how well the director knew how to work around budgetary limitations. <em>Alphaville</em>, a dystopian sci-fi noir set in an Orwellian world of omnipresent surveillance run by a malevolent artificial intelligence, sounds at first blush like a large-scale work filled with the sort of macro world-building one typically sees in blockbusters. But Godard, working with next to no resources, captures the oppressiveness of totalitarian government through the claustrophobic conditions of repressed citizens. Ordinary Parisian streets and buildings are captured as they are, though in inky shadow, so that a certain kind of present-day dilapidation comes to suggest futuristic social decay.</p> <p>Godard takes private detective Lemmy Caution and illustrates <em>Alphaville</em>’s themes of social tension and incipient fascism by demolishing the man’s image. Godard secured Eddie Constantine, who had already played Caution in a number of films as a James Bond-esque rake whose chauvinism was portrayed as roguish and charming. In <em>Alphaville</em>, though, Constantine plays Caution as a somber has-been, a caustic loner in his twilight whose pathetic weariness is further emphasized by Godard forbidding the actor to wear makeup, preferring to capture every wrinkle and blemish on his face.</p> <p>When Godard does nominally adhere to the tropes one might expect from a Caution caper, he does so in the most parodic of ways, as in an early action scene in which a hitman springs out of nowhere in Caution’s hotel room, leading to a brutal scuffle where all diegetic sound drops out and is replaced by elegant, lilting classical music, until noise comes crashing in as the would-be killer and hero are sent through a series of glass doors. It’s a gag worthy of a Jerry Lewis film.</p> <div style="margin-bottom: 30px; " id="slant-857824271"><center><span class="mvp-ad-label">Advertisement</span></center> <div align="center" class="AdvallyTag" id="AdvAd-ArticleInline1"></div></div> <p>In mixing elements of noir and science fiction, Godard doubles down on the existential horror of both genres, emphasizing their common emotional detachment through a narrative involving a supercomputer, Alpha 60, that rules over a realm, Alphaville, in which human emotions like love are punishable by death. That premise anticipates future tech-noir features like Leos Carax’s <a href="/dvd/mauvais-sang-bd/"><em>Mauvais Sang</em></a>, and the rapport between Caution, so grizzled but still full of longing, and a thoroughly brainwashed, deadpan young woman, Natacha (Anna Karina), has the same kind of mutually dispassionate but compelling quasi-romance that Harrison Ford and Sean Young shared as androids performing love in Ridley Scott’s <a href="/dvd/blade-runner/"><em>Blade Runner</em></a>.</p> <p>One of the least energetic of Godard’s New Wave films, <em>Alphaville</em> nonetheless evinces his puckish wit and allusive modernism. Caution frequently engages in conversations with Alpha 60, which articulates its thoughts through a growling voice box and decries human illogic while also largely reciting lines that Godard cribbed from the work of Jorge Luis Borges. In one scene, rebels who refuse to live in a world without love are executed by firing squad next to a pool where swimmers calmly perform laps below the machine-gun fire. </p> <p>At its heart, though, <em>Alphaville</em>’s tension between emotion and logic epitomizes the early internal conflict of intellectualism and love that suffuses Godard’s early work. And, in one of the supercomputer’s Borges quotations, the film lays out the thesis that would undergird all phases of Godard’s search for unified truths: “Sometimes reality can be too complex to be conveyed by the spoken word. Legend remoulds it into a form that can be spread all across the world.”</p> <div style="margin-bottom: 30px; " id="slant-695465057"><center><span class="mvp-ad-label">Advertisement</span></center> <div align="center" class="AdvallyTag" id="AdvAd-ArticleInline2"></div></div> <h3>Image/Sound</h3> <p>Kino Lorber’s UHD presents the restoration used for its earlier 2019 Blu-ray of <em>Alphaville</em> in native 4K, further boosting a revelatory presentation of a film that often seemed one of the least visually dynamic of Jean-Luc Godard’s early career. Raoul Coutard’s cinematography, shot under incredibly difficult lighting conditions, can be fully appreciated for the subtle details now clearly visible through the heavy grain of the naturally lit, nocturnal street photography. Eddie Constantine and Anna Karina’s faces are rich in texture, blacks sink into abyssal levels of darkness without any instances of crushing, and outdoor location shots boast a healthy distribution of grain that never compromises detail. The robust-sounding audio is so clear that it’s now easier than ever to understand Alpha 60 supercomputer’s musings.</p> <h3>Extras</h3> <p>An audio commentary track by novelist and film historian Tim Lucas provides ample details about <em>Alphaville</em> and its place among both Godard’s filmography and the series of Lemmy Caution films, but Lucas’s dry, fact-based approach skirts a deeper, more formal analysis of Godard’s methods. A brief interview with Karina finds the actress recounting her memories of working on <em>Alphaville</em>. Most memorable is her amusing recollection that Coutard was so anxious about shooting in such dark lighting conditions that he couldn’t bear to look at the film’s dailies. An introduction by critic Colin McCabe provides a cursory but probing look into some of Godard’s techniques while not giving too much away.</p> <h3>Overall</h3> <p>Jean-Luc Godard’s sci-fi curio, a fascinating outlier in his New Wave period, makes the leap to UHD with a revelatory 4K presentation.</p> <div class='docent_acf_display_credits' id='credits'> <div id='starRatingDocent'><strong>Score: </strong> <i class="fa fa-star" style="color:#0a75ba;"></i><i class="fa fa-star" style="color:#0a75ba;"></i><i class="fa fa-star" style="color:#0a75ba;"></i><i class="fa fa-star" style="color:#0a75ba;"></i><i class="fa fa-star-o" style="color:#0a75ba;"></i> </div>  <strong>Cast:</strong> Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina, Akim Tamiroff  <strong>Director:</strong> Jean-Luc Godard  <strong>Screenwriter:</strong> Jean-Luc Godard  <strong>Distributor:</strong> Kino Lorber  <strong>Running Time:</strong> 99 min  <strong>Rating:</strong> NR  <strong>Year:</strong> 1965  <strong>Release Date:</strong> August 27, 2024  <strong>Buy:</strong> <a target='_blank' rel='sponsored' href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D7FZ2B2R/ref=nosim/?tag=slantmagazine-20">Video</a></div> <div class='donate'><strong>If you can, please consider supporting <em>Slant Magazine</em>.</strong><br /><br />Since 2001, we've brought you uncompromising, candid takes on the world of film, music, television, video games, theater, and more. 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