Preceded by: Brutality in Stone (Alexander Kluge, Peter Schamoni, West Germany, 1960). (Brutalität in Stein). In his first film, Kluge looked at Nazi architecture and its ideological implications. (13 mins, 16mm, From West Glen) --------------------- (Allemagne Année 90 Neuf Zero). French television asked Godard to make a film about the state of solitude; instead he made a film about the solitude of a state. It is one of his most beautiful movies, and one of the most touching. A journalist recounts the visit to East Berlin of Lemmy Caution, portrayed, as he was in Alphaville, by Eddie Constantine. This last spy of the Cold War travels through a wintry landscape of mislaid memories and sites peopled with the ghosts of Germany's cultural past. Godard's cinematic alchemy conjures up a resonant cultural history. It's also a trip beyond the fallen wall. Godard never dwells on the enormous rift that separated Germany for forty-five years. Rather, this opus probes the question: how can a story-and by extension, history-be told today?-Marie­Pierre Macia, S.F. Int'l Film Festival '93