An early masterpiece from Godard, trail-blazing, involving and charmingly enjoyable.
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03/03/08
Band of Outsiders (1964)
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Reviews Counted: 39 Fresh: 37 Rotten:2 Average Rating: 7.8/10
Runtime: 1 hr 37 mins
Synopsis: French New Wave master Jean-Luc Godard continues his fascination with dime store novels and American crime films with 1964's BAND OF OUTSIDERS, a free-spirited romp in the same vein as the director's breakthrough smash, BREATHLESS. More traditional than BREATHLESS in its technical... [More]
Genre: Foreign Films
Starring: Anna Karina, Sami Frey, Claude Brasseur, Ernest Menzer, Chantal Darget
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One of Godard’s most accessible pictures. A good place to learn how much of a debt modern cinema owes him.
12/30/06
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This 1964 feature remains one of Godard's most appealing and underrated films, relatively relaxed and strangely optimistic.
03/03/08
One must remember that even a lesser Godard is likely to be much more stimulating than another director's better films.
08/29/06
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A pair of set pieces -- the trio dancing in unison in a bar and their famous 9-minute, 43-second run through the Louvre -- make the movie worthwhile alone, but the disjointed, meandering, and somewhat random narrative isn't anything to write home about.
08/29/04
In an era where poor heist films...and spoofs of heist films (such as Snatch) are the primary contributors to the genre, it's refreshing how well Band of Outsiders holds up today.
07/22/03
This great film is ultimately only gently reproachful of the corrosive effects of American pop culture on our sensibilities
04/03/03
As an exhilarating challenge to familiar filmmaking, it stands alongside Breathless, Vivre sa vie: Film en douze tableaux, Masculin, féminin, and Weekend, as Godard's finest work.
03/04/03
I find the plot of Band of Outsiders uninteresting, the characters Arthur and Franz interchangeable, the innovations pointless and the overall experience unsatisfying.
10/21/02
It's been a while since I have left a theater so jazzed up about a movie.
02/28/02
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