Band of Outsiders (Bande ? part) November 21, 2004

Band of Outsiders' pulp-novel milieu is a dull Parisian suburb where Anna Karina and her two gangster cronies (Sami Frey and Claude Brasseur), botching their efforts to steal a hefty cache, manage to execute a few extraordinary capers. A tumultuous trip through the Louvre ("beating the American record of nine minutes and forty-five seconds by two seconds") and an impromptu dance routine in a café are only two. The film's raison d'?tre, affirms Godard, "is this sort of fluidity, the ability to feel existence like physical matter... it is not the people who are important, but the mood, the feeling among them..." (1964, 97 minutes).

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