Jeanskynebu the audience applauded

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Kaelan Mccaffrey Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Hattie I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

sergicaballeroalsina Bande à parte is an exhibition of its own style from the title sequence. And a declaration of intent; the Cinema as a game. Irrespective of being part of the Nouvelle Vague its genre is unclassifiable. The whole movie is a great artistic trick in which the experience get things that only cinema can achieve. The entire film fights hard against the boredom of the viewer in the same way that the protagonists fight their own boredom. A playful movie in which through an overactive narration shows us a gallery of actions that could happen in a action- movie and happen. I'm going to try to condense it into a hyper- spoiler: the traffic in Paris, the parody of a duel, a teacher dictates Romeo and Juliet, we hear heartbeats, somebody makes up, Arthur comes through the top of a car running, Odile runs and runs while the boys read the press to us, a lion, and a tiger, Odile sings around, Frantz does acrobatics on a wheel, a fair-shotgun, they cross a river, and play changing chairs and drinks, they smoke, tell jokes and fight, and run through the Louvre and a moment of silence. And of course the eternal and great dance. As the narrator would say: "Let the images speak." The kids move around like children in an amusement park and we want to stay in this movie. The Pulp plot is almost anecdote because in this masterpiece, Godard, as the narrator says about the heroes of this great adventure "saw that there were no limits or constructions" and invented a movie 100% unprecedented. Finally " the movie ends when nothing yet degrades or decreases. " Chapeau.

Christopher Culver Jean-Luc Godard's 1964 film "Bandè a part" (sometimes titled "Band of Outsiders") is an adaptation of an American crime novel that transcends its pulp origins through Godard's cinematic invention. The young lady Odile (Anna Karina), who isn't very bright, meets lowlife Franz (Sami Frey) in an English course and makes the mistake of telling him that the home in which she lives with her aunt holds a large amount of cash. Franz and fellow criminal Arthur (Claude Brasseur) plan a heist while at the same time vying for Odile's love, or at least her body. As is common in the French New Wave, the auteur only uses a crime caper as a skeleton for his own storytelling. A narrator (Godard himself) occasionally reads descriptive passages from the original novel, which are horribly purple prose, as if Godard is poking fun at his own source of inspiration."Bande à part" has occasionally been treated as a departure from this director's work, as "Godard for people who don't like Godard". However, anyone who has seen Godard's films to date will immediately recognize elements typical of his work at the time. For example, someone reads aloud a classic work of literature, this time an English teacher in a parody of modern language-learning methods. There is leftist social commentary, as the two criminals kill time by reading aloud tragic passages from Parisian newspapers. There is also dancing, as in the film's most famous scene Odile, Franz and Arthur interrupt their plotting for an amusing line dance in a café, over which the narrator tells us their unspoken thoughts.And then there is Godard's many references to the film canon. "Bande à part" is deeply imbued with the spirit of American noir films, which fits with the crime caper plot, but it also nods to classic slapstick and romance, which gives it a levity and charm I wouldn't have expected from a film with these particular characters. "Bande à part" may not be among the most awesome masterpieces of cinema, but it is memorable and funny, and very much worth seeing for fans of mid-century French films.

manendra-lodhi When the film started I didn't had a clue as to what was going on, but gradually they conveyed the story, and it became clear only after 20-25 minutes. Those 20 minutes I was entirely restless. Well the best part of the film was the character that the girl who portrayed it. She acted very nicely. Whoever has written the character has my regards. I believe that it is not necessary to change locations, characters or have actions to make the film interesting. There are films which are driven only by their plot (which pulls the audience in from the start) and through dialogs. So another weak link I found here was that the dialogs were either too complex to understand or simply not worked properly, because they were not enough to make me bond with the characters. However their roaming around the city and doing stuffs was kind of refreshing and the only thing that kept me watching the film. It also invoked interest when we reach towards the end. In all, the film is a little dull at some points but has cute, complex and funny moments that you may remember for a long time.Message: "Plan properly." Verdict: "Watch for sure if you understand Godard."

Charles Herold (cherold) Band of Outsiders has been described as a "Godard film for people who don't care much for Godard." As it happens, I can't stand Godard, who for me represents the worst of French Cinema. I hate most French films because they seem to just be two hours of people dully philosophizing and talking at each other. Sometimes French films are actually extremely (Wages of Fear, Hiroshima Mon Amour, Tall Blonde Man with One Black Shoe, City of the Lost Children) but I feel like most of the French movies I've seen in my life were exactly what I hate about Godard.So, how is Band of Outsiders for someone who hates Godard? Kind of a mixed bag. There are wonderful sequences in this movie. One in which the three main characters decide to have a minute of silence, another where they dance while the narrator tells you what they're thinking. And there are other moments that involve long, boring conversations that have no interest to them.Sometimes you get a little of both. There is a scene where a teacher endlessly reads Shakespeare, and at first it seems dull and like it's going to go on forever. But there is an interesting silent flirtation that starts up during the reading that is rather fascinating.So this movie gives me some understanding of what Godard is trying for in his films, I think. And it makes me understand why Hal Hartley, who I love, has said Godard is a major influence (Hartley's films also have long conversations with people talking at each other, but his dialog is quirky and fascinating, which is very un-Godard.The story involves a love triangle and planned robber featuring a dumb woman and two men, one a major creep and one a minor creep (predictably she likes the major creep better). Like most French new wave films that pay tribute to genre film making, Godard has drained most of the energy and suspense out of the crime genre in this film, so the story is never particularly compelling and the movie's slight twists are poorly done and seem like an afterthought. But there is some interest generated in the interaction between the three protagonists.This movie is sort of Godard lite, which is why I found it pretty watchable. I would say it's worth watching, even though ultimately it's still far inferior to the handful of French films I have loved.