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Band of Outsiders

Universal acclaim
Based on 9 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Crime
Written by:
Jean-Luc Godard
Dolores Hitchens (novel Fools' Gold)
Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard
Release Date:
Theatrical: August 18, 2001
DVD: January 7, 2003
Running Time: 97 minutes, Color / BW
Origin: France
Summary
RATING: Not Rated
Starring Anna Karina, Claude Brasseur, Sami Frey, Jean-Claude Rémoleux, Danièle Girard, Louisa Colpeyn, Chantal Darget, and Georges Staquet
A new 35mm print of Jean-Luc Godard's 1964 New Wave gangster film.
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What The Critics Said
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Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
Exhilarating doses of style, imagination, and sheer energy.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington
Blends a love of semi-trashy pop entertainment with a love of poetry, art and high moral seriousness. It's a young person's movie (Godard was 34 and Karina 24 in 1964) that retains its mysterious pull even as the film and we get older.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
The wonderful thing about Band of Outsiders is that the daring elements that jazzed audiences then have the same power to intoxicate all these years later.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Dave Kehr
This remains one of Godard's most appealing and underrated films, relatively relaxed and strangely optimistic.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Ella Taylor
Easily the most brilliant of the genuflections bestowed on the American gangster movie by the French New Wave.
Read Full Review >New Times (L.A.) Andy Klein
The plot may be nothing, but the film is something indeed.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Amy Taubin
Along with Raoul Coutard's radiant cinematography, what makes the film extraordinary is Karina, the pure curves of her face a contradiction to the marionette angularity of her body.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Charles Taylor
Band of Outsiders is about the tyranny of living a life of movie-fed fantasies, and while it makes us see the poverty of those fantasies, it also makes them unaccountably rich, poetic, sad.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jami Bernard
The strangely mesmerizing dance contest in "Pulp Fiction" was born of Jean-Luc Godard's 1964 New Wave classic Band of Outsiders.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 6.6 (out of 10) based on 3 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Stewart C. gave it a9:
This film should be coupled with Breathless when spending a night with cinema. Godard pays homage to Hollywood as he weaves and manipulates his narrative (You must watch with a discerning eye and have more than a passing flirtation with cinema in order to understand his work and to what he was reacting against.) . The camera, as in Breathless, is his brush, and the screen's image is his canvas.
Stephanie K. gave it a2:
I did not see the charm of this movie. It was psychologically inane. None of the characters had any appeal. There was an inordinate amount of scenes where the characters were simply running around, either on foot or in a car. I found it boring. Perhaps the charm has to do with how it was filmed, but for me, it did not redeem it.
Yoon C. gave it a 9:
One of Godard's best, a wonderful juggling act of comical, satirical, and romantic elements, Band of Outsiders is a small gem of a movie that reveals new and varying shades of luster with every successive frame. Hardboiled, absurd, violent, goofy, sexy, poetic and so natural. Godard would never be this lighthearted and romantic again.
