Made in USA (1966)

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Movie
German title Made in USA
Original title Made in USA
Country of production France
original language French
Publishing year 1966
length 85 minutes
Rod
Director Jean-Luc Godard
script Jean-Luc Godard
production Georges de Beauregard
music Robert Schumann
Ludwig van Beethoven
camera Raoul Coutard
occupation

Made in USA is a French film directed by Jean-Luc Godard from the year 1966 and is loosely based on various classic American gangster films, including The Big Sleep , and on the book The Jugger by Donald E. Westlake . As Westlake filed a copyright infringement lawsuit in the US, the film was only shown there in 2009. It is also the last Godard film in which Anna Karina played the leading role.

action

Paula Nelson wants to meet her boyfriend Richard in Atlantic City, but learns that he was murdered. She tries to find out the background to the murder and to find the perpetrator. She meets many gangsters in the process.

Reviews

The New York Times called the film in a critique from 2009 "Although not the biggest hits of Godard, but still a great B-side." On Rotten Tomatoes , he held early 2020 audience rating of 60% and a critic rating of 84%.

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Individual evidence

  1. In: NyTimes
  2. In: Rottentomatoes /