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Bande A Part [1964] [DVD]

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  • Actors: Anna Karina, Sami Frey, Claude Brasseur
  • Directors: Jean-Luc Godard
  • Format: Black & White, Full Screen, PAL
  • Language French
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: PG
  • Studio: Bfi Video
  • DVD Release Date: 28 April 2003
  • Run Time: 92 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00008WQ56
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 12,927 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Special Features

1.33 Full Screen
French
Region 2
An A To Z Guide
Video Interview With Anna Karina
Quentin Tarantino On The Dance Sequence And Pulp Fiction
Commentary By Roland Francois Lack
Interview With Cinematographer Raoul Coutard
Original Theatrical Trailer
Directors Biography
English


Synopsis

Jean-Luc Godard continues his fascination with dime store novels and American crime films with BAND OF OUTSIDERS, a free-spirited romp in the same vein as the director's breakthrough smash, BREATHLESS. The story follows two friends, Arthur (Claude Brasseur) and Franz (Sami Frey), who are searching for a way to make a big score. When Franz meets the beautiful Odile (Anna Karina) and she informs him of a large chunk of cash her aunt keeps hidden in her house, the duo are convinced that this is their lucky break. Odile is a sensitive young woman who, out of fear and guilt, opposes their plan, Arthur and Franz coax her to go along with the idea. When the time comes to pull of the heist, a miscalculation delays the seemingly perfect plan, resulting in a confrontation that has dire consequences. More traditional than BREATHLESS in its technical execution, Godard's film nonetheless sparkles with freshness and originality by using a comical, poetic narration (by Godard himself), as well as Michel Legrand's bouncy score. As the ambiguous threesome, Karina, Brasseur, and Frey each give performances that combine satirical melodrama, overflowing hipness, and moving sincerity, providing the film with its heart, and making it much more than a mere genre reworking.

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12 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars BFI - you should know better!, 6 Feb 2004
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One of the cool things about DVD is the ability to make subtitles optional. Over in the US, the Criterion release of "Bande A Part" allows you to dispense with the subtitles, allowing you to enjoy a picture uncluttered by text once you're familiar with the dialogue. Great shame then that this BFI release for the UK market doesn't give you the choice - you're forced to always view the film with subtitles whether you like it or not, making it no superior to a VHS copy in this respect. However, the other features and extras (again, fewer than on the Criterion release) are worthwhile. And the film itself, of course, is genius! But the BFI's oversight means I can only award this particular transfer three stars.
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4 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Not unlike "Au Bout De Souffle" ..., 20 Nov 2005
By L. Davidson (Belfast, N.Ireland) - See all my reviews
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"Bande A Part" (The Outsiders) is another stylish 1960's Godard film that is rich in characterisation and features some memorable scenes, but for me falls short of the quality of some of the earlier "Nouvelle Vague" films such as "Au Bout De Souffle" and "Jules et Jim". "Bande A Part" shares strong similarities to both of these films; the triangular nature of the love interest, the petty gangsters, the bustling Parisian boulevards and the unexpected finale. The plot is fairly straightforward; pretty student Odile (Anna Karina) reveals that there is a stash of cash hidden away in a room at her foster parents to two male admirers and together with her , they conspire to steal it and flee the country. The main characters are hedonistic, amoral and anarchic, typical existentialists,and they flirt ,chat and dance their way through the film entertaining the viewer most in the famous cafe dance scene and the race through the Louvre. "Bande a Part" is a good film, but for me it lacks the substance and impact of earlier French New Wave productions.
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15 of 29 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars New Wave classic from 1964, 20 Dec 2003
By Jason Parkes "We're all Frankies'" (Worcester, UK) - See all my reviews
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Like many films of the French New Wave (Tirez Sur La Pianiste, Lift to the Scaffold), Bande a Part (aka The Outsiders) takes its story from pulp origins and sets itself in the mould of a crime film. Godard is seen visibly getting bored with narrative, the beginnings of his episodic films are evident here- especially in the ironic denoument where the story ends in a typically casual way (predicting the end of Scorsese's Goodfellas in its offhandedness).

A love triangle (of a kind) are the main focus of Bande a Part,we follow Anna Karina & co as they go about their lives- school, cafes, an amusing journey round the Louvre (which was referred to in Pulp Fiction)& a plan to get their hands on money. The film shifts into nouvelle vague inflected noir towards the end, with the typically brilliant use of editing and shots which shows why Godard is so revered. The most famous scene is a brilliantly choreographed, seemingly improvised dance by the menage a trois- one that has since found itself referenced as an influence on dance scenes in Pulp Fiction & Simple Men.

Bande a Part fits very much into the New Wave crime film, alongside such works as Rififi, Lift to the Scaffold, A Bout de Souffle, Shoot the Pianist, & Pierret Le Fou. Godard would shift briefly towards SF (the noir inflected Alphaville) & then move away to a Brechtian form that emphasised politics. Bande a Part remains for me one of his great films, and along with A Bout de Souffle, the ideal introduction to Godard's works and a key film of the New Wave.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Karina is unbelievable....
Dodgy, somewhat pointless experiimental film, but Anna Karina is simply breathtaking.

If you want to experience Godard at his best, try Alphaville.

Published on 23 Oct 2007 by J. Lock

3.0 out of 5 stars Bande A Part
From the opening sequence of Bande A Part, the Benny Hillesque music set to a flashing montage of the protagonists portraits, the viewer is bombarded with a visual feast. Read more
Published on 21 May 2006 by Rene 68

4.0 out of 5 stars 'Bande A Part'
"Bande à part" was Jean-Luc Godard's seventh feature film, both shot and released in 1964. This is the story, set in the hustle and bustle of Paris, of two would-be gangsters,... Read more
Published on 2 Dec 2004

5.0 out of 5 stars Ah, Godard was the best.
Truffaut - what a nice man. Chabrol - a bon viveur. Good bloke.
Godard - genius - and Anna Karina (totally different in each film with Godard) is the face of the nouvelle... Read more
Published on 24 Sep 2004 by Andrew Baker

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