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Made In U.S.A
Institute of Contemporary Arts
Films
a white woman with dark brown hair, with a fringe, looks directly to camera. The background is a wall that remnants of posters and paint.
Made In U.S.A, dir. Jean-Luc Godard, France 1966, 82 min., French with English subtitles, 12

Paula Nelson, a hard-boiled detective, goes to Atlantic City to meet her lover. Once there, she learns that he is dead and decides to investigate. Partly inspired by Donald E. Westlake’s pulp fiction novel The Jugger, Made In U.S.A finds Godard playfully infusing a complex noir plot with everything from existential philosophy to a Marianne Faithful rendition of ‘As Tears Go By’.

Initially disregarded as a throwaway accompaniment to the ‘real’ film Godard was making in 1966, Made In U.S.A now, in hindsight, appears to be a perfect crystallisation of Godard’s filmmaking in the 1960s, an endlessly intoxicating cocktail of artifice and reality and a timeless interrogation of mystery, language and death.
 

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