Made in U.S.A. (1966)

User Rating:

6.4/10   

Director:

Jean-Luc Godard

Writers:

Jean-Luc Godard (writer)
Donald E. Westlake (novel)

Release Date:

27 September 1967 (USA)

Genre:

Crime | Mystery

Plot Keywords:

Journalism | Experimental Film | Acronym In Title | Avant Garde | Country Name In Title

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Cast

Anna Karina	...	Paula Nelson (as AK)
Jean-Pierre Léaud	...	Donald Siegel (as JPL)
László Szabó	...	Richard Widmark (as LZ)
Marianne Faithfull	...	Herself (as MF)
Yves Afonso	...	David Goodis (as YA)

Runtime:

90 min

Country:

France

Language:

French

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Netherlands:6 | Portugal:M/12 | Argentina:16 | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15

Filming Locations:

Paris, France

Company:

Anouchka Films

Movie Connections:

Referenced in The Hunter: A Conversation with Author Donald E. Westlake (2007) (V)

Soundtrack:

As Tears go By

A barbaric and idiotic comment

It's probably useless to say anything against Godard, since it's some kind of an unwritten law, that Godard is a cinematic god, and if you don't confess your belief to him, you're a vulgar idiot. - still I have to say that he's one of the most overrated directors in film history.

Yeah, sure I admit his historical value, the man made a huge change in to the course of film making, and I respect him for that. I have also read Godard's book about the structure and nature of film, and found it very fascinating. Still, for a man who knows a lot about the structure of cinema, a decision to throw every single characteristic in storytelling away, feels very strange to me. It just doesn't work. He, if anybody should know, that they don't exist for nothing.

I can see why he achieved this "film god" status. He was something never seen before, something outrageous. But hey people, let's face it. An hour long political essay disguised as a movie is not "beutifully poetic" or what ever you want to call it. It's just plain boring. No one ever has anything else to say about Godard's movies, than they are "surrealistic" and have such a "strangely poetic mood" in them. Like it's some kind of a magnitude. Poetic or not, The characters are unidimensional and flat.

If you want poetic movies with surrealistic mood, I suggest you to watch for example Robert Bresson's, Andrei Tarkovsky's or Krzysztof Kieslowski's films. They have a lot more in them than just the mood.