CriterionCast

Episode 151 – Band of Outsiders

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This time on the podcast, Scott is joined by David Blakeslee to discuss Jean-Luc Godard’s 1964 film, Band of Outsiders.

About the film:

Four years after Breathless, Jean-Luc Godard reimagined the gangster film even more radically with Band of Outsiders (Bande à part). In it, two restless young men (Sami Frey and Claude Brasseur) enlist the object of both of their fancies (Anna Karina) to help them commit a robbery—in her own home. This audacious and wildly entertaining French New Wave gem is at once sentimental and insouciant, effervescently romantic and melancholy, and it features some of Godard’s most memorable set pieces, including the headlong race through the Louvre and the unshakably cool Madison dance sequence.

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Next time on the podcast: Dino Risi’s Il Sorpasso

Music from this episode is from Michel Legrand’s score for Band of Outsiders

Scott Nye

Scott Nye loved movies so much, he spent four years at Emerson College earning a career-free degree in Media Studies. Now living in Los Angeles, he's trying to put that to some sort of use. OFCS member, film writer, day-tripper.