| Overview: | The great hipster film of the French new wave, Bande à part (The Outsiders) is Jean Luc Godard’s classic take on the American pulp crime movie. Namesake for Quentin Tarantino's production company (Bande à part inspired the famous dance sequence in Pulp Fiction), the film, told with detached gallic cool, pioneered daring cinematic devices that have since revolutionised filmmaking.
A simple story about two young delinquents, Franz and Arthur, who befriend a beautiful girl, Odile (Anna Karina - Godard's then wife), and conspire to commit a robbery, Bande à part is best remembered for its quirky set pieces: the celebrated mad dash through the Louvre; Arthur and Franz feverously reading crime-scenes from a daily tabloid; the re-enactment of the Billy the Kid shoot-out. And, of course, the heralded scene where the young Parisian pranksters dance the Madison in a half-empty café.
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