Alphaville - Jean-Luc Godard

[rockingharderthanyou]

I will always love the fact i saw this so young <3

[fatalistbg1]

Sensuality can exist without devotional love...

[haltion]

..... she is achingly beautiful ..... like trying to remember a moment in a dream 10 minutes after waking up

[camer0n345]

the greatest film of all time

[BeRsErKeR16]

ghost in the shell brought me here

[tkivoband]

this movie needs more explosions and stuff...

[ashahos]

i feel lost  now

[MickBellTV]

i think that Godard's films are even more relevant now and more accessible intellectually and emotionally. he was ahead of his time. alphaville depicts a future of tyranny and control, people zombie-like, complacent consumers, emotionally dead. sex confused with love. such poignant dialogue, the iconic Anna Karina lifts our hearts as we listen and are transfixed/reminded of what love can be. truth and beauty!

[MKUltra3]

@MickBellTV truth? beauty? what's that? Comments SO right on

[vintageification]

Anna Karina is one of the world's most beautiful women.

[fannyfae]

This scene is absolutely gorgeous, and one of the most poignant ones we reviewed in my world film history class.Godard uses words and imagery in such a powerful way that there are few scenes now that are that intensely gorgeous and sensual without needing to be explicit. You get the message through meis en scene (what's in the scene) within the frame, camera shot (extreme close up, medium shot, long shot) camera angle and lighting. This clearly demonstrates film as art.

[Bangoustine]

womens in black and white movies are almost always beautiful

[my1990ful]

" It's always like this ,you never know anything,and one night,you end it with death ."

timeless

[MightyQuinn2021]

This moves me, but Week-End and La Chinoise seem to just annoy and alienate me.

[RDBeatnik]

@MightyQuinn2021 Yeah, those aren't his best efforts.

[MightyQuinn2021]

@RDBeatnik I also like Breathless, Pierrot Le Fou and Le Mepris. Which other movies should I see along that vein?

[RDBeatnik]

@MightyQuinn2021 A Woman Is A Woman and Band of Outsiders would be a good choice if you haven't seen them.

[MightyQuinn2021]

@RDBeatnik I haven't. I'll check those out. Thanks

[WeedyBeaner]

Why is it that every single time that i hear a woman speaking french is like having sex with my ears <3

[TheJustaKapusta]

L'amour? Qu'est-ce que c'est?

[DonRMB]

2:05 Scorsese took inspiration from that... For the scene where Jodie foster and Harvey Keitel hug and spin just like that..

[clarapoko]

excellent film, I actually discovered it from Chapel Club, the song bodies. Whoever put those two together is a genius.

[Stretchypantsmaster]

she reminds me somewhat of Junji Itos' Tomie.

[tool619]

Godard is disgustingly pretentious. No wonder they cater to the americuns who like sexy french girls and cigarettes. Apart from Alphaville and probably Vivre Sa Vie, i can say with utmost confidence that godard is the most overrated director in the art house cinema.

[Dylannnnnnnn91]

@tool619 Not everything has to do with art house. Sometimes film can be viewed from a perspective other than it having to fit a certain category.

Obvious hipster is obvious.

[BlackRaven156]

Excellent film!

[TheAmuseum]

alphabet of cinema.

[LeonAmarantos]

Alpha-Beta-Gamma-Delta-Epsilon­-Zeta-Eta-Theta-Iota-Kappa-Lam­da-Mi-Ni-Ksi-Omicron-Pi-Ro-Sig­ma-Taf-Ypsilon-Fi-Hi-Psi-Omega­ville.

Alphabet of Cinema

[knoppersesserin]

oh my god, i fell in love with her..

[farkn0se]

check out "stellaville" also on yt

[TheMaudlinstreet]

oh god, this video is amazing

[TheMaudlinstreet]

oh god, this video is amazing

[slonamu]

I rather wach "Meried with childdren".... Just troling here. Sory. Every Godar movie is such a plesure to my snobish half...

[AgentDeadPinata]

@slonamu - Married With Children: where Godard meets Bergman meets John Waters.

Doobie doobie dooo dan dara dan dan....

[RonAlmeida]

Once I believed i love, now I know only lust exists.

[eecortese]

For those of you who insist on referring to Anna Karina as “Anna Karenina”, please get your Anna’s straight.

The former (seen in clip above) is the movie actress (born Hanne Karin Blarke Bayer in Denmark) and wife as well as muse to French film director Jen- Luc Godard.

The latter is both the title of and principle character in the great Russian novel by Leo Tolstoy.

[eecortese]

Anna Karina, one of the great beauties of the nouvelle vague, along with Jeanne Moreau and Catherine Deneuve.

The period of Italian neorealism certainly has its fair share of beauties as well; Monica Vitti, Sophia Loren, Claudia Cardinale

[MowgliX]

I actually wrote a thesis on this movie and Blade Runner. :)

[xxxscenes]

I think. This is. One of the. Most. Beautiful. Things. I've seen. In my life.

[MsPsycho29]

Ça sera mieux si tous ces singes qui écrivent leurs commentaires de merde cessez et allez jouer leurs bites ailleurs.

[MachineryInDisguise]

kate moss looks like her! :O

[realfranklove]

#Coolbeans where did you even find something like this?

[finalmattasy]

I'm really starting to think that godard is a poser. Kurosawa, Bergman, Fellini.. they get my engine going! But Godard? So far, not for me.

[JCSolar]

@finalmattasy

I kinda agree with you.

[baddits06]

what it means??

[YearOfTheSeaHorse]

.Visceral Memories: A journey into forgetting.

..again..by..heart..

[farkn0se]

the dialogue is poetry

[ateniense7]

Godard was a great artist.

[KAOKOKUNGDAISY]

@ateniense7 Godard is still a great artist.

[ateniense7]

@KAOKOKUNGDAISY in the last twenty years, his movies are not good

[JunglePweople]

You realize this movie is the precursor to movies like The Matrix, right?

[dulcamara19]

l'amour est les silences et les paroles <3

[perkyporkpie]

nnnnnnnnn

[coppurt]

This three minute video sent me into a five hour long marijuana induced Godard-session.

[W012248]

why are ugly old french men in my face at the moment

[tyjeffries]

@W012248 we only see ugliness because it is within ourselves.

[mansionsong]

Anna Karina is so beautiful, I once saw her on a blog, and I saw her picture a thousand times since. I was so happy when I found out her name, and what she does. I haven't stopped being obsessed with her certain mysterious elegance.

[spirmessi]

if you like to see the movies history watch *BIRTH OF CINEMA* in youtube and enjoy.

[Schokolokomix]

lol the guy looks like her grandfather

[shoconate]

@Schokolokomix aparently you haven't seen this movie to say an so useless thing... more, to think just one time this

[killhahenkst]

@Schokolokomix

in this movie from 1965 the actor is 48years old, the actress is 25

[welcometoskyvalley]

when i see movies like this i think how movies used to be about people instead of beign about things...

the way in which they portrayed the human face, the lack of movement in the camera... its like... movies were about people and what they did and why, the way they felt...

now i feel that movies are about things, things that happen, facts that occur and thats it...

i think movies nowadays lack a certain human aspect, like, instead of showing feelings like they used to, they show actions.

[olgachefugge]

@welcometoskyvalley

yes. that's what i think.

[sebasco9]

@welcometoskyvalley In one simple paragraph you have defined what is wrong with Cinema today. It's great to find someone with such a great sensibility for filmmaking.

[Vesters1]

@welcometoskyvalley well, that's very precise. It's the distinction between a time-image and a movement-image (read Deleuzes' books on cinema).

[Hzqi]

@welcometoskyvalley

Terrance Malick is a contemporary still exploring the feelings and the experiences of the film's inhabitants.

[jcsmtih900]

@welcometoskyvalley Never seen a Jean-Luc Godard film but I'll just say this there's no point in watching other people for 2 hours in a movie when you can watch them in real life (not saying that is relevant to his films)... escapism is the beauty of watching movies... isn't it?

[jcsmtih900]

@jcsmtih900 and just as an after thought: story usually revolves around things right? what's a good film without a good story? I hate when people value complexity, style and technical accomplishment over substance

[welcometoskyvalley]

@jcsmtih900 What's a good film without a good story? You answered that yourself: escapism. Transformers 3. I don't value complexity, style and technical accomplishment because I know nothing of cinema, I am completely ignorant about it, sadly. But I can recognize when a film is saying something about life other that just trying to entertain me for 2 hours.

[jcsmtih900]

@welcometoskyvalley I hear what you're saying but escapism is not a film without a story. For example: if you've seen The Matrix what did you think about it?

It says something about life. It entertains. It has a good story and manages to allow one to escape.

[welcometoskyvalley]

@jcsmtih900 Who said The Matrix was escapism? Just because it has cool slow motion firefights and its entertaining to watch that doesn't mean it's escapism. Movies with a message are not always in black and white and spoken in french.

[jcsmtih900]

@welcometoskyvalley It is escapism. You can put yourself in that world (for however long the movie is) and forget that Keanu Reeves is a bad actor and you can leave your brain at the door for quite a while while be entertained every second they re-enter The Matrix.

[welcometoskyvalley]

@jcsmtih900 You can leave your brain at the door with any movie, if you want to. That doesn't make all movies a form of escapism.

[jcsmtih900]

@welcometoskyvalley technically yes you can... but now there really isn't a point of arguing this. Escapism is the art of diverting your attention from your day to day life... The Matrix fits that idea perfectly. That is all I am saying.

[welcometoskyvalley]

@jcsmtih900 That definition is too broad, and lacks a certain depth that cannot be written in this limited space. It focuses on the form, forgetting the content. But suit yourself.

[jcsmtih900]

@welcometoskyvalley too broad? uhhh, that IS the definition of escapism. You could throw in: by way of recreation or entertainment at the end if you feel the need to, but I think most people get the point.

Anyway the point is: a good film without a good story isn't defined as escapism... it's defined as boring (in almost all cases)... it certainly can be (escapism), but it has to have everything else in the frame working for itself for one to truly ignore that nothing is going on.

[welcometoskyvalley]

@jcsmtih900 "by way of recreation or entertainment" Now, that's an accurate definition! Anyways, movies are not all about escapism, some movies actually have something to say, any movie can be escapism if it's watched with that intention, and some movies are made specifically to escape... Oh, and there are movies that don't quite fit any definition, what do you think about that conclusion?

[jcsmtih900]

@welcometoskyvalley I was mainly pointing out that movies can generate some kind of escapism and still have something to say... I am a big fan of all things moving pictures (short films, web shows, movies, music videos etc.) and I think that movies without story shouldn't be made into movies... Maybe escapism alone isn't what I should've been arguing for but rather for the opposite of 'bringing someone out of a movie'.

[jcsmtih900]

@jcsmtih900 And by that, I mean if you point out detail after detail during a movie that sort of destroys the art of watching it (and at this point it becomes the art of critical thinking which is not the purpose of the medium). I point out some details but I don't let that keep me from feeling for the characters and experiencing the story. Great direction is right in front of your eyes yet should be every bit invisible. Maybe I'm wrong about the purpose of the medium - but how can someone...

[jcsmtih900]

@jcsmtih900 enjoy watching something that is not meant to entertain? If you find entertainment in critical thinking I guess I could understand that, but there are very few films in which I could honestly say I enjoy thinking way too much about (while still trying to watch the movie). Fight Club is one example... then again it also entertains even when watched without the social commentary.

[welcometoskyvalley]

@jcsmtih900 Why did I said "Movies with a message"? That sounds awful.

[welcometoskyvalley]

@jcsmtih900 Watching a movie is more than watching other people, as reading a book is more than interpreting signs on a piece of paper. As for escapism, no. The beauty of watching movies is watching movies. Escapism isn't bad, as long as it is not the only choice.

[mrsmullin]

I adore this movie, if you have not see it from beginning to end you may not be able appreciate this scene. There is so much happening, really beautiful. This movie was the inspiration for Blade Runner.

[DeanCorso82]

Just beautiful, it's truly art, I love Godards movies watch also une femme mariée...

[stephie0202]

love this clip

[FidelioRoo]

One of the funniest movies I've ever seen.

[DrSho]

is it art, it pretentious horse crap?

[cineasta71]

@DrSho It's art. enjoy it.

[BunchofMovieVideos]

I've never seen a Godard film before and very few French films. Can anyone recommend (a) some of Godard's films and tell me why they are good and (b) any other good French movies from about 1950-1975?

Thank you.

[ddaniel34471]

@BunchofMovieVideos Band a Part and Breathless are the top two that I would recommend. Goddard films and films like them are considered "New Wave". Before these, movies were made on sound stages, over acted and usually from a play or novel, these movies are closer to real life and inexpensive.

[folladordeprostis]

Are his movies really good as amelie or joyeux noel??

[ohplaygroundtwist]

@folladordeprostis BETTER

[folladordeprostis]

@ohplaygroundtwist Really???? I heard jean luc godard hate hollywood movies hahhhaha

[ohplaygroundtwist]

@folladordeprostis and who doesn't ? hahaha

i don't mind hollywood movies but i get his point.

[mrsmullin]

@folladordeprostis he inspired new generations of hollywood movies.

[ohplaygroundtwist]

@folladordeprostis hates*

[zareenaxcouture]

shes so gorgeous

[ookkonaaoulusta]

i do not speak french, but i saw this movie.

[n8mills]

3 minutes of that is enough for a whole movie. Taken in bursts it works, but as it drags on it's a niche display. Like watching a Kung-Fu movie, you really have to enjoy Kung-Fu to watch a whole one.

[livedinbars]

This is intellectual masturbation.

[azekok]

@livedinbars yay, fontanel fuck

[FungusMossGnosis]

@livedinbars "intellectual masturbation"

Yeah...so!? What's your point? My guess is your not a Robbe-Grillet fan.

[livedinbars]

@FungusMossGnosis My point is that if this was in English and filmed in colour everybody would be saying it was bollocks, not art.

[FungusMossGnosis]

@livedinbars

If, say - Richard Lester or John Boorman, or Stanley Kubric made a movie similar script around that time, and Jean-Luc Godard hadn't - and it was comparable, then I'm sure it would get more notice, and accordingly more scorn from the main press at the time. And more would say 'it's bollocks', like those who deny the genius of Visconti's 'Death in Venice'; any of that has no bearing on reality.

Alphaville is like 'Kiss Me Deadly' re-filmed by Cocteau with an Louis Aragon script.

[Setebos]

@livedinbars --- as long as it feels good!

[Damag3Dz]

amour

[NefiiGirly]

That's the most beautiful speech I've heard (or read lol, either way)

[alebertfama]

Sublime comedy. Godard.

[DazzaZulu]

This babe is probably in her 70's now, but she is smokin' hot.

[TheJanpeterJ]

Ca, c'est l'amour.

[lilian0poulin]

one of my favourite scenes on all Godard films!

the words are so magnificent,they mean something...its not just a bunch of words..they are words felt,how love should feel...if i could choose a scene that i could live in my real life,it would be this..epic sensation of emotions...

[Genchmen]

@lilian0poulin i agree with you..

[crispycrab]

Why be sensual with a dude that looks like a bulldog?

[kasyapa]

crispycrab - because he is incorruptible.

[marymoon11]

The heart has but one mouth...

[aniria100]

bullshit,

i thought his "meaning of love"(if there is one) was different...

i'm so disappointed

[RheingoldxxL]

... edel ...

[Emmelubfo]

huhuwär echt cool wenn jemand mich vor meinen einsamen dasein retten würde

[KangaBeaver]

That is so totally right! She could even ask for the bloody cornflakes and call me an imbecile, mon amour, oui, oui!!!!

[gordinho55]

@KangaBeaver ahahahahh

[chicaplexiglas]

quizás sea algo pretenciosa (como todo lo que hace Godard), pero es una pelicula preciosa, muy poetica y filosófica a la vez. Y tiene una estética fascinante.

[junglegeorge88]

does anybody know the music piece that is played?

[Marek80ify]

Rewelacja. Widziałem chłopaków na żywo. Mam nadzieję, że w tym roku wystąpią również u nas. Swoją drogą, czy ktoś wie, kto organizuje występy tego wykonawcy w naszym kraju? Solaris Music?

Muzyka, którą ciągle rewelacyjnie się słucha. Ach te lata 80-te. Może ktoś powinien zrobić koncert kilku takich artystów na raz. To byłby temat...

[boitahaki]

anything a woman says in french is just awesome

[coolguy7248]

@boitahaki

fantastic comment ,loved it

[boitahaki]

thanks lol

[JBTheMovies]

@boitahaki As if that weren't true enough, Anna Karina's voice takes it to the next level.

[jerramy]

@boitahaki - That woman could read a shopping list and sound incredibly sexy.

[LORD7mada]

@jerramy she's not 'That woman" she's ANNA KARINA

[jerramy]

@LORD7mada my bad......

[twangville]

@LORD7mada fallait souligner ca !!

[lorizebell]

gorgeous.

[latiumbr]

essa é a verdadeira ficção científica e não George Lucas!

[Ebla2000]

It is in arte this evening. Truly great film. Our time has lost the skill. Action is so empty.

[FTFsystem]

what an incredible genius...for making love, the most incomprehensible thing, even more incomprehensible with just some few, very easy and understandable, questions...

[TheFutureUnquiet]

All things weird are normal in this whore of cities. — Eddie Constantine as secret agent 003 Lemmy Caution in Jean-Luc Godard's 1965 film Alphaville.

[TokyoBoots321]

Do you have the whole movie? Would it be possible that you upload it here?

[feverdeanmg]

I watched it on google video, check there

[Meozm]

# Lemmy : Non, quand je vous ai dit que je suis amoureux de vous.

# Natacha : Amoureux ! Qu'est ce que c'est ?

# Lemmy : Ça.

# Natacha : Non, ça je sais ce que c'est, c'est la volupté.

# Lemmy : Non, la volupté est une conséquence, elle n'existe pas sans l'amour.

[Meozm]

* Natacha : Je voudrai partir avec vous dans les pays extérieurs. Mais j'ai peur. Depuis que je vous ai vu je ne suis plus normale. À quel moment j'ai dit pourquoi ? * Lemmy : Pourquoi ? * Natacha : Non. Parce que ... Vous le savez très bien monsieur Johnson. * Lemmy : Non je ne sais pas. * Natacha : À quel moment ? Dites moi. * Lemmy : Très souvent. Hier soir par exemple, dans le couloir.  * Natacha : Cette fois-ci c'est vous qui mentez.

[StcNY]

Somebody can write this dialogue in francaise? please!?

[quinnsans]

J'ai vu ce clip et je veux regarder le film tout entier maintenant!

I just watched this clip and I want to watch the entire film now!

[rooberxxx]

puag jejejejeeje inmteresante godard puag

AHORA TODOS VIVIR EN LOS PAISES ESTERIORES JEJEJEJEJEJEJEJE

[Sosooo989]

it's just great art.

[joooachim]

"In love. What's that?"

[antoniorsimao]

It's awful how short is the knowledge about history (of cinema and in general) that grasses around allthese coments! Everibody should read a see more movies, here!!1

[LogInAnders]

@antoniorsimao I've watched plenty of films but could you recommend me some books? 

[maor1810]

it's simply brilliant.

[catgomez2009]

love... according to Godard

[inesis]

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[guldballong]

I die! So very beautiful. Especially I appreciate 02:15-02:21 - the flickering highlighting is breathtaking.

[CoolMovesNow]

One of the best!

[showroommeryll]

...

[SpaghettiWstrnGrl]

One of my fave scenes in the film. I love this movie!

[DrazzanDuo]

I looking forward to seeing this movie. It's great that Haruki Murakami mentioned this film in his novel "After Dark". ;P

[aynotdeadinbsas]

great words.

[cah28]

Instead of giving us a speech about love while showing performance art like poses, cinema should use the action of drama, you know people interacting with each other in ways that convey these ideas, drama should not be reduced to an explanation. Drama is the art of acting out the human condition, not explaining it. show don't tell.

[goback3spaces]

Godard knows that, I think. Perhaps he's looking for a way to poetically "show" by "telling." Try to see the beauty in this sequence.

[Scuddi]

Cinema shouldn't do anything. You may have an idea of what it should be but your idea is pretty rigid and specific.

To think the director hadn't considered what you're saying long before he even decided to be involved in film is just silly. Your statement is remedial and speaks of someone who just repeats what they're taught.

[bigNberlin2]

"Show don't tell"... but "show" what? What's already been shown so many times before; that same winning formula that always makes the audience laugh, flinch, swoon or cry on cue. Godard was bored with that, and so are the people who are still interested in the solutions he came up with to deal with the boredom.

[marno76]

I perfectly agree. this is intellectual meaningless radical chic shit.

[Skurkefjes]

You might feel that way. I don't. And I am not alone.

[apfelknecht]

beautyful woman, ugly guy lol but a good movie!

[isabeldosmares]

Interesant (mettre á rechercher)

Enrique Rojas Montes, Psiquiatra

[Jadabh2]

please...fool

[madrereus16]

yes, what ever you say.

[vinniechase26]

the same country that nascar takes place ? they turn left, they turn left, left again, and again and again.