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Bande à Part
Film Description AKA The Outsiders. Belonging to that joyous efflorescence which was early Nouvelle Vague, Bande à Part gave cinema back to the kids as a trio of young moderns have bad attitudes and commit crimes around Paris to a hip score. Funny, utterly irreverent, very clever and perfectly cast.
Film Information
DVD Extras Wonderful extras featuring an interactive A-Z Guide featuring Anna Karina, Quentin Tarantino, clips, stills, on-set footage and informative narration; Interview with cinematographer Raoul Coutard; Audio Commentary by Dr Roland-Francois Lack; Theatrical Trailer.
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Review by richard armstrong on 11th February 2002 This is the one Tarantino named his Pulp Fiction production outfit after and upon which Hal Hartley modelled that ensemble dance sequence in Simple Men. The playful allusion is thoroughly understandable, for Bande a part remains one of the liveliest Parisian frolics in the French New Wave since Zazie dans le Metro. For Godard, reality was a movie and movies were real. At one point in Bande a part, the director represents silence not by making Karina, Frey and Brasseur be quiet, but by not putting any sound in the finished mix. Bande a part is a joyful celebration of the world Godard loved. And he revelled in the possibilities of the cinematic mix – genre movie, cinema verite, direct address, intertitles – which symbolize film’s ‘assembled’ take on the real, as well as its allegiance to a wider society and its cultures. Indeed, the anti-Establishment, anti-‘official cinema’ stance of early Godard is epitomized by this title’s tribute to the cheeky iconoclast. Its stylistic impulsiveness is echoed in Karina, arch-siren of the Nouvelle Vague, who tags along with a couple of small-time hoods from the suburbs for a series of adventures – miming Billy the Kid, running around the Louvre, trying to learn English – in a film, true to Godard’s philosophy, whose picaresque trajectory mirrors the process of making reality into a movie. Godard married Karina in 1961 and they divorced in 1964. From 1966, Godard’s work takes a sharply political turn… View more reviews by richard armstrong
Article - "Tragic Muses - Monica Vitti and Anna Karina"
by Alan Boshier
In the golden era of European art cinema, two actresses came to embody the work of the directors that they were associated with on both a personal and professional level to an extent that it is hard to separate one from the other. They are Monica Vitti and Anna Karin... View article in full
Article - "What You Find: Hidden Gems on DVD"
by Graeme Hobbs
DVD Extras aren't all about dubious 'featurettes' and photo galleries and theatrical trailers. Now and again the format has given the opportunity to release some exceptional features - often early short films by the director or really worthwhile documentaries. Here a... View article in full
Article - "Jean Luc Godard"
by Moviemail
For the best part of five decades, Jean-Luc Godard has been producing innovative, challenging and controversial films. The list of his influential titles is peerless. From the nouvelle vague brio of A Bout de Souffle and Bande à Part through to the exquisite beauty o... View article in full
Collections & ListsThis film is part of the following Film Collections
A Beginner's Guide to Nouvelle Vague Including: Bande à Part, Bob Le Flambeur, Breathless (Godard, 1959), Eric Rohmer: The Early Works, Hiroshima Mon Amour, Jean-Luc Godard Collection (Volume 1), Jean-Luc Godard Collection (Volume 2), Jules et Jim, Last Year in Marienbad, Masculin Feminin.
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