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Band of Outsiders - Criterion Collection
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780780025899
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 078002589X
Label: Criterion
Languages: English (Subtitled), French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Manufacturer: Criterion
MPN: 030
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Criterion
Region Code: 1
Release Date: January 07, 2003
Running Time: 95 minutes
Studio: Criterion
Theatrical Release Date: 1964
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Editorial Review:
Described by its maker, Jean-Luc Godard, as "Alice in Wonderland meets Franz Kafka," this 1964 film noir stars Anna Karina as a naive woman who takes up with couple of would-be bad guys (Claude Brasseur, Sami Frey) in a disastrous effort to rob her aunt of a fortune. Along the way, the motley group joins the Godardian (and Hollywood gangster) tradition of characters who walk a line between reality and invention, in this case distracting themselves by running around the Louvre, taking a stab at learning English, stumbling through some dance steps, and reenacting the death of Billy the Kid. A uniquely spontaneous work in Godard's canon, Band of Outsiders also continues the Brechtian strain in the director's merged relationship with Karina, his then-wife and artistic muse. Yet it is also more buoyantly unpredictable in its sense of romantic doom than any of the director's movies since his seminal debut, Breathless (also a gangster film, not coincidentally). --Tom Keogh
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
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Rating:  - Essential French cinema: Godard's 'Bande à part .'
Band of Outsiders (1964) is perhaps Jean-Luc Godard's (1930) most accessible French New Wave film. Drawing from politics, film history, French intellectualism, existential and Marxist philosophy, Godard's radical films challenged the conventions of Hollywood cinema. He describes this film as "Alice in Wonderland meets Franz Kafka." It tells the simple story of two would-be criminals, Arthur (Claude Brasseur) and Franz (Sami Frey), who both fall in love with Odile (Anna Karina), a naive student ... Read More
Rating: - Light, playful with a gray undertone
Even though I haven't gotten around to finish watching Jean-Luc Godard's celebrated Breathless (1960) despite trying a couple of times, I'm pretty sure I like Band of Outsiders better. Main reason: Anna Karina. I have little doubt that most women would prefer Breathless since it stars Jean-Paul Belmondo who, as cinematic history has it, anticipated Richard Gere's performance in Truffaut's American Breathless (1983).
What I love about Karina's Odile is her incredible naivete. Although ... Read More
Rating: - Band of Outsiders
Like Godard's "Breathless," the exhilarating "Outsiders" is one of the director's most accessible and enjoyable outings from the 1960s. Part buddy film, part crime-gone-wrong drama, it tells the story of three disaffected friends whose ill-advised adventure in armed robbery is really a way for Godard to capture their devil-may-care youthfulness. Tracking the trio's romp through the Louvre (to beat the nine-minute record of an American tourist!) or staging a cool, dazzling three-way dance (the Madison) ... Read More
Rating:  - A Good Example of a Bad French New Wave Film.
While "Band of Outsiders" exemplifies French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard's philosophy of overturning traditional filmmaking to bring a New Wave of cinema to France in the 1960s, it does not possess the charisma that spontaneity and natural environments lent the best of Godard's films. This is the underside of the New Wave, a lesson in why doing things simply because they have not been done before does not make good art. "Band of Outsiders" takes inspiration from American crime films of the 1940s and applies ... Read More
Rating:  - essential godard
If one film could some up the ouevre of Jean Luc Godard it would probably be 'band of outsiders'.. It is a great example of French New wave.. As in many godard pictures the plot is not that important - its like he is saying - yeah, yeah, we've seen this plot a million times before lets just use it as a means of improvisation.. With Raoul Cotard's cinematography we see Paris in all its glory - filming the streets like no one else.. Yet despite all this playfulness 'band of outsiders' plays as one of Godard's ... Read More
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