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If there are any films that offer a fantastic sense of esteem for the cinema, they are the films of Jean-Luc Godard. But, as he explains in a brief interview from 1964 that is included with this sparkling DVD, he was also against film; that is, against the conventions and rules that predominated French cinema. So he introduced unconventional methods of telling stories and making movies and decided to include elements that films typically left out. “Band of Outsiders” is a impish, unconventional, mesmerizing yarn of small-time gangsters and young esteem site in 1960s Paris. Its source material runs the gamut from the pulp crime unique on which it is based to the American B-movies and film noir that inspired its glimpse. It’s Godard’s best admire letter to Paris since “Breathless,” and also one of the last of his factual Novel Wave films.
The chronicle might be simple enough: Arthur and Franz enlist the wait on of the young, exquisite Odile to stage a robbery. But if the account is simple, everything else around it is not. Here we get allusions and homages to Arthur Rimbaud (the poet whom one of the characters is named after), Franz Kafka, film composer Michel Legrand, “The Umbrellas of Cherbourg,” T.S. Eliot, Shakespeare, American cartoons, Jack London, Charlie Chaplin, Andre Breton, Andre Malraux, and numerous others. That’s Godard doing his thing, and even if we miss those allusions, there’s so great more to be cherished: the renowned miniature of silence, the running visit through the Louvre, the dance scene, the aesthetic closeups of Anna Karina, riding on the underground metro, the trio driving through the streets of Paris.
“Band of Outsiders” is impish, wondrous, hilarious, breezy, but at the same time melancholic, murky in its undertones. Raoul Coutard’s photography gives it a stark perceive, but its playfulness is its most alluring aspect, along with Godard’s wonderfully sharp, inventive visual language. It might not be the finest example of the French Unique Wave, nor is it as perfect as a work of art as “Breathless” and “My Life to Live,” but in its flaunting of cinematic invention, its richness, and its embodiment of pure cinema, it’s in a class by itself and certainly a film that should be seen, if not owned, by lovers of cinema. Its most memorable moments will remain in your mind forever.
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Many Godard fans, myself included, have been waiting eagerly for this Criterion edition of “Band of Outsiders.” It’s a distinguished digital transfer; the images and contrasts are crisp; the mono soundtrack is as distinct as possible. The additional features are worth the trace of the DVD alone, including a visual glossary that explains many of the film’s allusions and a brief interview in which Godard explains the philosophy gradual the Recent Wave. Criterion has really outdone itself with this disc, and that’s saying something.
I recommend that, even if you do not know French, you should leer this film at least once with the subtitles off since they sometimes obscure the closeups that gain this film so memorable. When the camera is on Anna Karina’s face, fill me when I say you don’t want anything to stand in its procedure.
‘Band of outsiders’ is Jean-Luc Cinema Godard’s most endearing film - a teen movie played by adults, a savor myth, a heist movie, a serial, a slapstick comedy, an anthology of Novel Wave magic. As with previous films, Hollywood genre is made a complete nonsense, continually deflated by extended bits of business, my favourite being the attempt to beat the portray for racing down the Louvre’s corridors honest before the heist.
As with all early Godard, the joy of ‘Band’ is in the bouyant playfulness of his style - the high, long shots looking down on bustling activity; the long car-journeys through Paris streets; the intense close-ups on Anna Karina (Godard’s wife), eluding all meaning, or the sheer rapture in watching her running along pavements, or crossing a river; the messing around disused yards; the lengthy quotes and allusions that stall the action and give resonance to the funny goings-on and the turmoil of the characters in them; the unwavering long takes with arresting proper sound; the sportive homages to veteran Hollywood; the narrator’s bumptious intrusions, equating events with ‘bad B-movies’.
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More than Louis Malle’s ‘Zazie dans le metro’, ‘Band’ is the ultimate Raymond Queneau film - Karina’s character is named after the heroine of Queneau’s roman a clef ‘Odile’, a book about the writer’s rupture with the Surrealists, impartial as ‘Band’ signals Godard’s outpacing the Unique Wave - with its deadpan marginal heroes, its elusive heroine who doesn’t want to be elusive; its romanticising Paris, especially its margins and its pull to the embankments; the attractions like circuses and funfairs intruding on the everyday. Godard finds a cinematic equivalent for Queneau’s record squawk - its flip melancholy; its casual intellectualism; its disappear from messing about to the philosophical to slapstick to dreams to the tragic and wait on again; in the self-consciousness of the characters; in the sage mix of whim, genre and destiny.
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