Band of Outsiders [re-release]

Name: Band of Outsiders [re-release]
Genre: Drama, Crime
Released: August 18, 2001
Duration: 95 min
Rating: 88
Cast: Anna Karina, Claude Brasseur

2001

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Universal acclaim based on 9 Critics

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Generally favorable reviews based on 21 Ratings

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Band Of Outsiders (US)

Movie Details & Credits

Royal Films International | Release Date: August 18, 2001

Starring: Anna Karina, Claude Brasseur

Summary: A new 35mm print of Jean-Luc Godard's 1964 New Wave gangster film.

Director: Jean-Luc Godard

Genre(s): Drama, Crime

Runtime: 95 min

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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

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Christian Science Monitor - David Sterritt

Exhilarating doses of style, imagination, and sheer energy. 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

L.A. 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

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

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StewartC.

Apr 7, 2006

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 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.… Expand

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StephanieK.

Aug 26, 2005

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 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.… Expand

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