Godard scandalized critics by calling American cinema a form of invasion.

Evidence

Sarris, who interviewed Godard at the Grove Press offices, quoted their press release in its entirety. Far more interested in the filmmaker than the film, he was nonplussed first by Godard’s reference to Grove’s women problems and then by the filmmaker’s assertion that “Czechoslovakia had been invaded by American tanks from United Artists long before the Russians came in.” — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 1563