Made in U.S.A.
Jean-Luc Godard's 1966 noir has been unavailable in the U.S. since its release more than 40 years ago. This new 35mm print (for its Seattle debut) reveals the film in all its cool, stylish, America-obsessed weirdness. The storyline is familiar, if obscured: Anna Karina (she of cold gaze and downturned mouth) searches for her husband's killer in Godard's half-French, half-imaginary vision of Atlantic City. Along the way, she meets various pulpy, hard-boiled characters; hits stuff with her shoe; encounters many sudden loudnesses (jet engines, phones, trucks, gunshots, knocks, pinballs, orchestral blasts); and tangles with problems of math, age, time, and definition. "Yes, we were in a political movie," she says, "meaning Walt Disney with blood."
By Lindy West
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