Tournées Film Festival: Bande à part (Band of Outsiders)

October 18, 2017
06:45 PM - 08:45 PM
Hoyt Auditorium

Synopsis

Band of Outsiders serves as the perfect introduction to the work of the seminal artist credited here as “Jean-Luc Cinéma Godard.” The film puts the leading New Wave director’s love of B-movies and detective novels front and center, with the story of a heist carried off by the unlikely trio of two shiftless Paris guys and the moony au pair they both love, but is at its most exhilarating with its famous “digressions”: the legendary line dance in a Paris café or the whirlwind trip to the Louvre, in which the trio break the record for the fastest museum visit. Along with this constant playfulness, the film’s mix of youthful ebullience and romantic tragedy, its interplay between the gritty black and white images of Paris and Godard’s poetic voiceover, and the thrilling moments in which the camera seems to break with the narrative to capture the young actors’ very essence create a particularly enjoyable primer in the art of the New Wave, as well as Godard’s most accessible film. Made as a gift to his wife and muse Anna Karina to help her out of a period of depression, Band of Outsiders has a buoyancy that would soon be replaced by the sharper critique and harder edges of Godard’s political films of the late sixties. Also starring the boisterous Claude Brasseur and intense Sami Frey, Band of Outsiders is an unforgettable ode to youth, Paris, and cinema.

Director

Jean-Luc Godard

Screenplay

Jean-Luc Godard

Cast

Anna Karina
Sami Frey
Claude Brasseur

Details

French
97 min.
France, 1964

Distributor

Rialto Pictures

 

Tournées Film Festival - Fall 2017

Category: Film Screenings