Je vais bien merci. De rien.

That was the nonsensical response uttered by a series of 'level three seductress' types when our hero said or did something which was confusing to them.
"I'm fine, thanks. Don't mention it."
Not once, not twice, but at least three times those words were spoken, adding a dollop of humor to an otherwise dour film.
Our hero did not care to respond to such zany utterances.
Ivan Johnson, "pronounced Lemmy Caution", was in Alphaville to rescue Natacha von Braun.
He was on a mission of poetry.

Pretty sweet, right?
I had not known that the purpose of poetry is to bring light into darkness.
Did you know that?
I learned that tidbit from the 1965 science fiction film, "Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution", which was the opener of the 8th Annual Francophone Film Festival tonight.
The film was a surreal piece, in which a computer had run amok and eradicated emotion from the residents of the town. The suggestion was that the human inhabitants had been replaced by automatons, or perhaps were simply brainwashed to do Alpha 60's bidding.
The professor who created the computer had disappeared, but his daughter was still alive.
The Outer Countries had sent our hero to rescue the fair damsel.
Did he succeed?
Watch it yourself!
(smile)

Afterward, there were sweet pastries from Cafe M!
Cinnamon spins, as delightful as the first time I had them!
Raspberry twirls!
Chocolate croissants!
Raisin bread!
And there was even real food, too! Delicious ham and Swiss sandwiches on fresh French bread!
Woohoo!
Thanks, Amanda and Arthur de Bruc de Montplaisir, for a lovely dinner and dessert! So lovely to see y'all again!
How wonderful to have shared the evening with Carolyn, too, and Axelle and Jordan!
I'll be back for the other four films tomorrow and Saturday!
Hope to see y'all at the Ogeechee Theatre!