Made in USA
Synopsis
Paula Nelson (Anna Karina), a female version of Humphrey Bogart's hard boiled detectives, goes to Atlantic City to meet her lover, Richard Politzer, at an unknown point in the future (maybe 1969). Once there, she learns that Richard is dead and decides to investigate his death. In her hotel room, she meets Typhus, whom she ends up knocking out. His corpse is later found in the apartment of David Goodis (Yves Afonso), a writer. Paula is arrested and interrogated. From then on, she encounters many gangsters.
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Director (1)
Actors (27)
Production and distribution (3)
- Executive Producers : Anouchka Films, Rome-Paris Films, Société d'Études Pour l'Industrie Cinématographique (SEPIC)
- Film exports/foreign sales : Carlotta Films
- French distribution : Lux Compagnie Cinématographique de France
Full credits (13)
- Executive Producer : Georges De Beauregard
- Screenwriter : Jean-Luc Godard
- Director of Photography : Raoul Coutard
- Music Composers : Mick Jagger, Keith Richards
- Assistant directors : Claude Bakka, Charles Bitsch, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Philippe Pouzenc
- Editors : Agnès Guillemot, Françoise Collin
- Sound recordists : René Levert, Jacques Maumont
- Author of original work : Donald E. Westlake
- Producer : Georges De Beauregard
- Assistant Operator : Roger Robert
- Camera Operator : Georges Liron
- Production Manager : René Demoulin
- Continuity Supervisor : Geneviève Letellier
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- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Crime/thriller
- Themes : Murder, Mystery, Espionage
- Production language : French, English
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Majority French (France)
- Production year : 1966
- French release : 27/01/1967
- Runtime : 1 h 26 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 32112
- Visa issue date : 26/01/1967
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 2.35
- Audio format : Mono
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Hong Kong International Film Festival
Hong Kong, 2023
Focus - Jean-Luc Godard x Anna Karina : A Retrospective
About
Made in USA is a 1966 French film directed by Jean-Luc Godard. Greatly inspired by the Howard Hawks film The Big Sleep and unofficially based on the novel The Jugger, by Richard Stark (a.k.a. Donald E. Westlake), it stars Anna Karina, Jean-Pierre Léaud, László Szabó and Yves Afonso. Because neither Godard nor the producer paid the book's adaptation rights and following legal action by Westlake, the film was long unavailable in the United States. The film had its U.S. premiere on April 1, 2009 (three months after Westlake's death) at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco in a newly-restored print distributed by Rialto Pictures.
Production
The movie was shot at the same time as Two or Three Things I Know About Her. Godard did it to help his friend and producer, Georges De Beauregard, in difficulties after the censure of The Nun, a movie by Jacques Rivette, that he produced.
This is the last full-length movie where Anna Karina and Jean-Luc Godard collaborated. He again directed her in a segment (called "Anticipation
" (Anticipation: or Love in the Year 2000)) of the movie The Oldest Profession (1967).
Marianne Faithfull has a cameo in a cafe scene where she sings "As Tears Go By".
Characters in the film are named for such real-life personages as Don Siegel, Kenji Mizoguchi, Richard Widmark, Robert McNamara, David Goodis and Richard Nixon. Paula Nelson is probably named for Baby Face Nelson, about whom Siegel had made a film starring Mickey Rooney
The film is dedicated to "Nick and Sam," referring to Nicholas Ray and Samuel Fuller, "Hollywood mavericks who were objects of filial awe and Oedipal aggression" for Godard.
Reception
Made in USA "has rarely been seen in the U.S.A."; it was shown at the 1967 New York Film Festival (NYFF), prompting The The New York Times to call it an "often bewildering potpourri of film narration, imagery and message" and point out that "Anna Karina, as the questing girl friend, supplies not only a luminous beauty but also a unifying thread of humanity." Over forty years later, A.O. Scott saw it at Film Forum and said while it is "far from a lost masterpiece, it is nonetheless a bright and jagged piece of the jigsaw puzzle of Mr. Godard’s career"; he suggested a number of "reasons for non-Godardians" to see the film:
"There is, for one thing, a pouting and lovely Marianne Faithfull singing an a capella version of 'As Tears Go By.' There are skinny young men smoking and arguing. There are the bright Pop colors of modernity juxtaposed with the weathered, handsome ordinariness of Old France, all of it beautifully photographed by Raoul Coutard. There are political speeches delivered via squawk box. And of course there is a maddening, liberating indifference to conventions of narrative coherence, psychological verisimilitude or emotional accessibility."
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