Whanganui Film Society's Monday night screening is Alphaville by 1960s pioneering French New Wave film director Jean-Luc Godard.
Godard turns the modernist architecture of 1960s Paris into a dystopian city of the future in which love and poetry are banned, delivering a brilliant mix of film noir, science fiction and philosophical inquiry.
Starring Anna Karina and Eddie Constantine, Alphaville made in 1965, is a film noir sci-fi hybrid which utilised the newly-constructed modernist buildings of Paris.
"Despite its age, it's that rare science fiction film that doesn't seem to have dated at all," wrote LA Times reviewer Kenneth Turan.
"Alphaville was in part about the importance of love and human connection in a world where technology was warping interpersonal contact.