Band of Outsiders

    Band of Outsiders
    1964

    Synopsis

    Cinephile slackers Franz and Arthur spend their days mimicking the antiheroes of Hollywood noirs and Westerns while pursuing the lovely Odile. The misfit trio upends convention at every turn, be it through choreographed dances in cafés or frolicsome romps through the Louvre. Eventually, their romantic view of outlaws pushes them to plan their own heist, but their inexperience may send them out in a blaze of glory -- which could be just what they want.

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    Cast

    • Anna KarinaOdile
    • Claude BrasseurArthur
    • Sami FreyFranz
    • Danièle GirardEnglish Teacher
    • Louisa ColpeynMadame Victoria
    • Chantal DargetArthur's Aunt
    • Georges StaquetLegionary
    • Ernest MenzerArthur's Uncle
    • Jean-Claude RémoleuxThe Alcoholic Student
    • Michel DelahayeThe Doorman

    Recommandations

    • 100

      Christian Science Monitor

      Exhilarating doses of style, imagination, and sheer energy.
    • 100

      Chicago Tribune

      Blends a love of semi-trashy pop entertainment with a love of poetry, art and high moral seriousness. It's a young person's movie (Godard was 34 and Karina 24 in 1964) that retains its mysterious pull even as the film and we get older.
    • 90

      L.A. Weekly

      Easily the most brilliant of the genuflections bestowed on the American gangster movie by the French New Wave.
    • 90

      Los Angeles Times

      The wonderful thing about Band of Outsiders is that the daring elements that jazzed audiences then have the same power to intoxicate all these years later.
    • 90

      Chicago Reader

      This remains one of Godard's most appealing and underrated films, relatively relaxed and strangely optimistic.
    • 80

      Village Voice

      Along with Raoul Coutard's radiant cinematography, what makes the film extraordinary is Karina, the pure curves of her face a contradiction to the marionette angularity of her body.
    • 80

      New Times (L.A.)

      The plot may be nothing, but the film is something indeed.
    • 80

      Salon

      Band of Outsiders is about the tyranny of living a life of movie-fed fantasies, and while it makes us see the poverty of those fantasies, it also makes them unaccountably rich, poetic, sad.

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