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T. J. Harman
20May12
"...he wrote an editorial about how fascism was the currency of morality""...I stopped working in advertising because I believe it to be a form of fascism". Oh, Godard. Oh, the french 60s. What a gloriously pretentious commie time.
Fabian Schmidt
21Apr12
Ou cette vie n'est rien. Ou bien il faut qu'elle soit tout. En envisageant de la perdre, plutôt que de la soumettre à l'absurde, j'installe au cœur même de mon existence relative, une référence absolue, celle de la morale
dust in love
14Apr12
The couple's last joint effort, made when they were already divorced. One can feel that cold distance between the two: Anna seems to be forsaken by Jean-Luc's frigid look, who was more than ever interested in the experimentation of his cinematic language. There's a total absence of feelings here, there ain't no love. There's only a girl and a gun. A very late goodbye to a dead romance.
Ademption
11Aug11
This film typifies my ignorant assessment of Godard before I watched more of his films. Tons of ideas, wordplay, bright colors, and the actors smarmily smirking at the cleverness of it all while talking about everything and nothing. Godard is a post-modern (and more learned) proto-Jimmy Fallon who likes cars and big walls of color. Clever, but nonsensical and boring. I liked "2 or 3 things I know about her" more.
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Costanza Arena
9Jun11
Il dramma della mia coscienza è che dopo aver perso il mondo, cerco di recuperare me stessa, ma mi perdo in quest'intento.
WhatsUpWill
1Jun11
I always feel like there's something deeper beyond the surface of Godard's films, but I'm never able to quite grasp it. Maybe I'm chasing an illusion or maybe I need to give myself some more time before I embark on another.
Eric Landman
12Oct10
Beautifully shot, amazing dialogue, my current favorite film for Godard. I even liked it more than Breathless ;)
Sean Keeley
13Aug10
"A Looney Tunes rendition of The Big Sleep gone New Wave." Wow, that sounds like a fun movie. Instead, though, Made in U.S.A. is a rambling, alienating mess. Full of politics and movie references and disorienting sound effects and jump cuts, it really doesn't add up to much of anything. Nice colors, though.
Katia Baghai
10Aug10
Jean-Luc Godard’s “Made in USA” (1967) - Liberal Warrior in a land of giant posters, ambitious secret agents, politicians-servants, intellectualizing workers and bartenders, fitness ladies and writers fighting for success. Anna Karina’s heroine tries hard to balance the business of fight without hate and revenge without gloating with moral decency and with her personal charm. She becomes a professional murderer, and we need to answer what exactly political powers in American life are symbolized by victims of her assassinations. Godard’s representation of Nixon and McNamara as junior secret service agents is politically eloquent and significant in its clairvoyance. Paula’s tireless, obsessive care about her appearance signifies the humongous role of appearance (of political cosmetics) in liberal politics (it is equal to the role of blackmail by power in conservative politics). Today in U.S.A. we live in a period of the decline of liberal appearance (together with democracy). Today, Paula Nelson would be, for sure, not only a professor-emeritus but a writer with a record of popular recognition. You will find an article about this Godard’s incredible collage of images, ideas and characterizations (“Love is to Private Life what Progressive [Humanistic] Ideals are to the Public Realm”) and the analysis of numerous screen shots from the film, both posted in August of 2009, at: http://www.actingoutpolitics.com/ By Victor Enyutin
Louise_Dietrich
31Jul10
I am glad I am not the only one that didn't care for this film. I am not sure if I was expecting more, especially since it starred Karina and Leaud. It was a terribly long 85 minutes.
H. Jackson
27Jun10
The film ends with the question of how we should discuss politics. Perhaps, Godard suggests, it is a question that cannot be answered. The obscurity of the film's politics is both the most interesting thing about it, but also the most frustrating. The plot is convoluted and confusing - which plays into the hazy messages the film offers - and beautiful like other JLG films of the period. Fun, but very frustrating.
bees can see ultraviolet light
30May10
Wow...... and it ends saying that "Right" and "Left" wing notions are completely obsolete and then doesn't say why we shouldn't phrase them like that. The ending also pays no attention to Paula's beloved Richard... making the story seem insignificant in the end! Yeah...................
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bees can see ultraviolet light
30May10
Why did she kill that man in her apartment in the first place?
bees can see ultraviolet light
30May10
I like David's character, the writer. And I like the colours, the movie is a lovely work of art, WITHOUT the confusing plot and dialog. I was really enjoying the first half an hour of the film, but as the political rambles increase, confusion also arises in the plot as Anna Karina's story becomes jumbled with the other detective's... Someone explain!!! I currently have a love/hate relationship with this movie. It is also very boring at parts.
josher
7May10
Political and cultural references and quotes make up the dialogue of this film. Putting together a movie with a plot you could make sense of, was not what Godard was trying to do here. If you have the knowledge necessary to catch the references, this movie would be really exciting. But for most of us it's 85 minutes of confusion. The color schemes were awesome though.
Stephanie Ling
10Mar10
I don't know if the reason behind me not being able to truly understand this movie is because of my lack of knowledge of the history, or if it is the fault in the subtitiles...but this movie was worth the time. I would watch it again just to understand it more.
Addiena of Mubi land
12Feb10
Remind me of lines said in 'Ghost World': Rebecca: 'This is so bad it's almost good'... Enid:'This is so bad it's gone past good and back to bad again'.. I Agree with Enid but slightly agrees on Rebecca too. (Now how messed up is that?)ITs for the purpose of giving you ideas of this movie.
Sumner Coy
30Jan10
completely incomprehensible, though I think that may have been the intention. generally a mishmash of compelling details, images and stories mashed together in a way that elaborates and concludes none of them. not godard's finest, but worth watching for its imagery alone.
kirkgremlin
20Jan10
this film was kind of letdown. i was expecting another pierrot le fou i guess and got this instead. its basically a weird hodgepodge of spy movie/noir plot lines with random communist undertones. sounds great on paper, just the finished product left more to be desired. the film does have its good points, namely, the cinematography is great with the colors literally jumping off the screen, and godard is in top form.