Band of Outsiders (Bande à Part) preceded by The Fiancés of Macdonald Bridge (Les fiancés du pont Macdonald

Band of Outsiders (Bande à Part) preceded by The Fiancés of Macdonald Bridge (Les fiancés du pont Macdonald

Band of Outsiders (Bande à Part) 
Four years after Breathless (1960), Jean-Luc Godard reimagined the gangster film even more radically with Band of Outsiders. 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. 

DIRECTED/WRITTEN BY: Jean-Luc Godard. WITH: Anna Karina, Sami Frey, Claude Brasseur, Danièle Girard. 1964. 95 min. France. B&W. French. DCP.  
 

Preceded by  

The Fiancés of Macdonald Bridge (Les fiancés du pont Macdonald) 
Directed by Agnès Varda for her film Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962), this silent short stars her French New Wave colleagues Jean-Luc Godard, Anna Karina, Sami Frey, and Eddie Constantine and is set on the titular bridge over the Canal Saint-Denis. 

DIRECTED/WRITTEN BY: Agnès Varda. WITH: Jean-Luc Godard, Anna Karina, Sami Frey, Eddie Constantine. 1962. 5 min. France. B&W. French. Digital. 

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