Bande à part (Band of Outsiders) (1964)

Monday, October 01, 2007   —   Vienna 0 Comments

  • Director: Jean-Luc Godard
  • Starring: Anna Karina, Sami Frey, Claude Brasseur
  • Genre: Foreign Films
  • RT Rating: 95%
  • My Rating: A
  • Links: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Wikipedia
  • Trailer: YouTube

Three years of Media Studies has made me hate the word "Postmodern", so I prefere to think of Jean-Luc Godard's film as a great example of French New Wave – which it is.

Synopsis from www.criterion.com
Two restless young men (Sami Frey and Claude Brasseur) enlist the object of their desire (Anna Karina) to help them commit a robbery––in her own home. French New Wave pioneer Jean-Luc Godard takes to the streets of Paris to re-imagine the gangster genre, spinning an audacious yarn that’s at once sentimental and insouciant, romantic and melancholy.

The movie is sentimental in a hip kind of way. I watched it with a friend on a lazy afternoon, which is the best time for these sort of quirky French movies. And if you have a persuasion towards pulp novels and American crime, you'll absolutely love the characters.

There is a great scene in the movie where the characters do something called the The Madison dance. The Madison dance and the Pulp Fiction twist

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