In 1979, Louis Malle traveled into the heart of Minnesota to capture the everyday lives of the men and women in a prosperous farming community. Six years later, during Ronald Reagan’s second term, he returned to find drastic economic decline. Free of stereotypes about America’s “heartland,” God’s Country, commissioned for American public television, is a stunning work of emotional and political clarity.
Cast
| The citizens of Glencoe, Minnesota |
Credits
| Director | Louis Malle |
| Producer | Nouvelles Éditions de Films |
| Screenplay | Louis Malle |
| Cinematography | Louis Malle |
| Sound | Jean-Claude Laureux and Keith Rouse |
| Editing | James Bruce |
by Michael Koresky
Apr 23, 2007
Deservedly celebrated for the astonishingly diverse array of narrative features he made over a nearly forty-year career, Louis Malle was in fact even more multifaceted than this body of work suggests. For alongside such well-known, and disparate, dramas as the cool noir Elevator to the Gallows . . .
by Michael Koresky
Jan 12, 2007
I just got back from an around-the-world trip to Minnesota, India, and Paris, and I did it all in about seven days. I’m not proud to admit that all of that traveling was actually done from the shabby couch in my Brooklyn apartment, while staring at a 27-inch TV screen. The “vacation in your . . .
