Reverse Projections: Jean-Luc Godard’s Made in U. S. A.
Made in U. S. A. embodies the meaning of the term “Godardian” when used as an insult.
Made in U. S. A. embodies the meaning of the term “Godardian” when used as an insult.
If there was ever a story that needed to be transformed by the filmmaking process, the banal science-fiction pulp of Alphaville is it.
Godard renders the title character’s anomie as dispassionately as one might write out a math problem.
Contempt is about the impossibility of loving in a world where The Odyssey can’t be filmed.