Made in U.S.A.

Director: Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Luc Godard

1966 / 90min / 35mm

A provincial French city plays Atlantic City and Anna Karina (in her last film with Godard) plays a trench-coated woman searching for her boyfriend, Richard, in JLG’s cockeyed deconstruction of American noir tropes, its cast rounded out by Marianne Faithfull, and Jean-Pierre Léaud, the latter giving a masterclass in slapstick as a loitering tough guy with the unlikely sobriquet Donald Siegel (no relation to the Hollywood genre specialist of the same name). Very loosely based on Donald Westlake’s The Jugger—to the dismay of Westlake—this Pop Art-styled pastiche embodies its director’s conflicting love of American pop culture and hatred of America as a political entity. “Not the celluloid holy grail, but it’s close enough.”—J. Hoberman, The Village Voice