Bande à part
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 Bande à part DVD cover |
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| Directed by | Jean-Luc Godard |
| Written by | Dolores Hitchens (novel Fools' Gold) Jean-Luc Godard |
| Starring | Anna Karina Danièle Girard Louisa Colpeyn |
| Music by | Michel Legrand |
| Release date(s) | August 5, 1964 (France) |
| Running time | 97 min |
| Language | French |
| Budget | $120,000 (estimated) |
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Bande à part (released in English-speaking countries as Band of Outsiders) is a 1964 comedy/drama/film noir directed by Jean-Luc Godard, adapted from the novel Fools' Gold by American author Dolores Hitchens. It is part of the French New Wave movement. Godard himself described it as "Alice in Wonderland meets Franz Kafka".
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[edit] Plot
Odile (Anna Karina) meets wannabe criminals Arthur (Claude Brasseur) and Franz (Sami Frey) in an English language class and the two men persuade Odile to assist them in staging a robbery.
[edit] Famous scenes
- A scene in which the characters attempt to observe a minute's silence (which in fact lasts only 36 seconds), and then perform a cute Madison dance set to some soulful R&B rock n' roll in a bar. This scene inspired the Jack Rabbit Slim's sequence in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction. It also influenced a scene in Hal Hartley's Simple Men.
- A scene in which the characters attempt to break the world record for running through the Louvre. This scene is referenced in Bernardo Bertolucci's The Dreamers (2003), in which its characters break the record set in Bande à part.
[edit] Status
Bande à part is often considered one of Godard's most accessible films. Amy Taubin of the Village Voice calls it "a Godard film for people who don't much care for Godard".[1] Which may explain why it has been sidelined by critics at that time. However today it is regarded as one of his finest efforts and was the only film from his body of work that was selected for Time Magazine's All time Top 100 list
[edit] See also
- A Band Apart, Quentin Tarantino's film production company, named after the film.
- Bande à Part, the second album by French bossa nova group Nouvelle Vague.
[edit] External links
- Resources at the British Film Institute
- Criterion Collection essay by Joshua Clover
- Bande à part at the Internet Movie Database
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