Made in U.S.A (1966)

Directed by

Jean-Luc Godard

Genre

crime film

Country

France

Runtime

1h 30m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 105 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman travels to a small French town to investigate her lover's death. She gets caught up in a confusing web of political intrigue and double-crosses.

playfuldisjointedself-awarefreneticquirkystylizedabsurdpop-art

What happens

Made in U.S.A is a 1966 French crime comedy film written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard, and starring Anna Karina, László Szabó, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Marianne Faithfull, Yves Afonso, and Jean-Claude Bouillon. It was a loose and unauthorized adaptation of the 1965 novel The Jugger by Richard Stark (an alias of Donald E. Westlake), and was also inspired by the 1946 Howard Hawks film The Big Sleep (which was, in turn, an adaptation of the 1939 novel of the same name by Raymond Chandler). Because neither Godard nor the producer got permission or paid for the rights to adapt The Jugger, Westlake brought legal action, and the film was not released in the United States for over four decades. A newly restored print of the film was distributed by Rialto Pictures in 2009, starting with a screening at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco on April 1, which was three months after Westlake's death. The Criterion Collection released the film on DVD in July 2009. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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