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Movie Analysis - Eloge de l'amour (In Praise of Love),

In the early 60's Jean-Luc Godard is probably the most discussed director in the world. Alphaville obtains effects of chiaroscuro with HPS black-and-white film stock. Cigarette lighters are implied to be laserswords, and matches are instruments fulminating amorous and social combustion. As in 2 ou 3 choses que je sais d'elle, in which the embers of a cigarette are likened to the extinction of a galaxy, Alphaville plays on galactic luminosity that shoots through language.

“Matches” are at once phosphorescent and, as the ...