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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. It is part of the French New Wave movement. Godard himself described it as "Alice in Wonderland meets Franz Kafka".

Plot

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.

Famous scenes

A scene in which the characters attempt to observe a minute's silence (which in fact lasts only 36 seconds), and then perform a Madison dance in a bar. This scene inspired the Jack Rabbit Slim's sequence in Quentin Tarantino
's Pulp Fiction
. It also influenced a scene in Hal Hartley's Amateur
.
A scene in which the characters attempt to break the world record for running through the Louvre. This scene is referenced in Bernardo Bertolucci's The Dreamers
(2003), in which its characters break the record set in Bande à part.

Status

Band à part is often considered one of Godard's most accessible films - Amy Taubin of the Village Voice calls it " a Godard film for people who don't much care for Godard" .

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