Band of Outsiders
Bande à part, or Band of Outsiders, is a 1964 comedy / drama / film noir by French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard, adapted from the American 1950s pulp fiction Fools' Gold by Dolores Hitchens. Described by Godard himself as "Alice in Wonderland meets Franz Kafka," the film is considered one of the foremost of the French new wave. Odile (Anna Karina) meets wannabe criminals Arthur (Claude Brasseur) and Franz (Sami Frey) in an English language class and the two men persuade Odile to assist them in staging a robbery. One of Godard's loveliest and most accessible films, it is best known for its Madison dance sequence (which inspired Quentin Tarantino and Hal Hartley) and a record-breaking nine-minute run through the Louvre, a scene which Bernardo Bertolucci pays homage to in his 2004 film The Dreamers.
