event Godard's '60s Series: Made In U.S.A.

French New Wave legend Jean-Luc Godard and his greatest star, Anna Karina, were at the height of their collaborative powers when they made the 1966 agitprop feature Made In U.S.A., a relatively plotless essay about the pervasiveness of Americana in Europe. The most celebrated sequence has Karina spouting political rhetoric in a warehouse full of movie billboards, but Made In U.S.A. also provides a surprise appearance by Marianne Faithfull, characters with names like “Richard Nixon” and “Don Siegel,” and a premise loosely based on a couple of different pulp detective novels.

French New Wave legend Jean-Luc Godard and his greatest star, Anna Karina, were at the height of their collaborative powers when they made the 1966 agitprop feature Made In U.S.A., a relatively plotless essay about the pervasiveness of Americana in Europe. The most celebrated sequence has Karina spouting political rhetoric in a warehouse full of movie billboards, but Made In U.S.A. also provides a surprise appearance by Marianne Faithfull, characters with names like “Richard Nixon” and “Don Siegel,” and a premise loosely based on a couple of different pulp detective novels.