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Bande à part (1964)

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Overview

Director:
Jean-Luc Godard
Writers:
Jean-Luc Godard (writer)
Dolores Hitchens (novel)
Release Date:
5 August 1964 (France) more
Genre:
Crime | Drama more
Plot:
Two crooks with a fondness for old Hollywood B-movies convince a languages student to help them commit a robbery. full summary | add synopsis
User Comments:
Good Godard, but not Great Godard more

Cast

 (Credited cast)
Anna Karina ... Odile
Danièle Girard ... English Teacher
Louisa Colpeyn ... Madame Victoria
Chantal Darget ... Arthur's Aunt
Sami Frey ... Franz
Claude Brasseur ... Arthur
Georges Staquet ... Le légionnaire
Ernest Menzer ... Arthur's Uncle
Jean-Claude Rémoleux ... L'élève buveur d'alcool
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Michel Delahaye ... Le portier

Jean-Luc Godard ... Le narrateur
Monsieur Jojot
Claude Makovski ... Pupil
Michèle Seghers ... Student in English Class
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Band of Outsiders (USA)
The Outsiders
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Runtime:
97 min | USA:95 min
Country:
France
Language:
French | English
Sound Mix:
Mono
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Company:
Anouchka Films more

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Trivia:
The principle actors rehearsed for the famous dance sequence in nightclubs and bars in Paris' Latin District. more
Quotes:
Le narrateur: What's that big building? asked Odile. The Louvre. The whitewash is great, she said. That guy deserves a medal. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in Mise-en-abyme (2006) more
Soundtrack:
J'entends, j'entends more

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11 out of 13 people found the following comment useful:-
Good Godard, but not Great Godard, 18 August 2004
Author: (rcraig62@comcast.net) from Brick, NJ

"Band Of Outsiders" covers about the same ground as "Breathless", but I think with less depth and less humor. Godard sticks more to plot here and less to his wonderful scenes of empty talk that are like good jazz riffs. People may respond more to this one than Breathless precisely for that reason- it more fits the conception of an American B-movie: The plot is conceived, designed and carried out with a few twists and turns in the process.

This movie is the most self-referential of Godard's B-ish movies in that Godard is a director who lives in a world of the junk crime movies he grew up with making a movie about characters who live their lives like a bad crime movie. When Anna Karina jokes that Stolz probably made his loot from cheating on his taxes, then repeats it again in the final scene- this time as stated fact, it shows you how deeply these characters are entrenched in the fiction of it all, how the wisecracking becomes a way of living. What was disappointing to me is that there was less of the memorable nonsense that makes Godard's films unique- although there is some. Godard's overwrought, sickly poetic narration is obviously a gag, as is Arthur's hilariously overacted death scene; the minute of silence at the soda shop where Godard cuts the soundtrack completely is great, and the synchronized (well, almost) dancing is just precious, and I loved it. But it's the almostness of Godard's films that makes it special; if it were too perfect, it would be mechanized and dull. Instead of dancing, it would be choreography, an applied science.

Band Of Outsiders is definitely worth seeing if you like Godard's way of filmmaking; to me, it falls a little short of greatness, but it does have its moments. Beware of croc-Odiles! 3*** out of 4

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