. . . And the Pursuit of Happiness (1986)

Synopsis

In 1986, Louis Malle, himself a transplant to the United States, set out to investigate the ever-widening range of immigrant experience in America. Interviewing a variety of newcomers (from teachers to astronauts to doctors) in middle- and working-class communities from coast to coast, Malle paints a generous, humane portrait of their individual struggles in an increasingly polyglot nation.

Cast

Credits

Director	Louis Malle
Producer	Nouvelles Éditions de Films
Screenplay	Louis Malle
Sound	Danny Michael
Editing	Nancy Baker

From the Current

Eclipse Series 2:
The Documentaries of Louis Malle

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...