Anna Karina as Natasha Von Braun in a scene from Alphaville.
Anna Karina as Natasha Von Braun in a scene from Alphaville.
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 andphilosophical 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.
"Those issues have not gone away, they've gotten stronger and more pressing with the passage of time."
Whanganui Film Society president Helen Marie O'Connell says Alphaville is the first of three films in the society's 2018 collection - Architecture in Film: Designing the Future - which focuses on the role of architecture in film.
Whanganui Film Society memberships are available online or at the theatre before screenings.
