Band of Outsiders
Four years after Breathless, Jean-Luc Godard reimagined the gangster film even more radically with Band of Outsiders (Bande à part). In it, two restless young men (Sami Frey and Claude Brasseur) enlist the object of both of their fancies (Anna Karina) to help them commit a robbery—in her own home. This audacious and wildly entertaining French New Wave gem is at once sentimental and insouciant, effervescently romantic and melancholy, and it features some of Godard’s most memorable set pieces, including the headlong race through the Louvre and the unshakably cool Madison dance sequence.
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- Digital master of Gaumont’s 2010 high-definition restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Visual glossary of references and quotations found in the film
- Interviews with Coutard and actor Anna Karina
- Excerpts from the documentary La nouvelle vague par elle-même, featuring director Jean-Luc Godard discussing the New Wave and rare behind-the-scenes footage from Band of Outsiders
- Filmmaker Agnès Varda’s 1961 silent short Les fiancés du pont Mac Donald, featuring Godard, Karina, and other members of the Band of Outsiders cast
- Godard’s original trailer and the 2001 U.S. rerelease trailer
- New English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by poet and critic Joshua Clover, a 1964 interview with Godard character descriptions created by the director for the film’s original press book
New cover by Lucien S. Y. Yang
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- Digital master of Gaumont’s 2010 high-definition restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Visual glossary of references and quotations found in the film
- Interviews with Coutard and actor Anna Karina
- Excerpts from the documentary La nouvelle vague par elle-même, featuring director Jean-Luc Godard discussing the New Wave and rare behind-the-scenes footage from Band of Outsiders
- Filmmaker Agnès Varda’s 1961 silent short Les fiancés du pont Mac Donald, featuring Godard, Karina, and other members of the Band of Outsiders cast
- Godard’s original trailer and the 2001 U.S. rerelease trailer
- New English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by poet and critic Joshua Clover, a 1964 interview with Godard character descriptions created by the director for the film’s original press book
New cover by Lucien S. Y. Yang
Cast
- Anna Karina
- Odile
- Claude Brasseur
- Arthur
- Sami Frey
- Franz
- Danièle Girard
- English teacher
- Louisa Colpeyn
- Madame Victoria
- Ernest Menzer
- Arthur’s uncle
- Chantal Darget
- Arthur’s aunt
- Georges Staquet
- Arthur’s cousin
- Claude Makovski
- English students
- Michèle Seghers
- English students
- Jean-Claude Remoleux
- English students
- Michel Delahaye
- School doorman
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Narrator
Credits
- Director
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Director of photography
- Raoul Coutard
- Assistant director
- Jean-Paul Savignac
- Screenplay
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Based on the novel Fool’s Gold by
- Dolores Hitchens
- Original music
- Michel Legrand
- Editor
- Agnès Guillemot
- Continuity
- Suzanne Schiffman
- Production manager
- Philippe Dussart
- Camera
- Georges Liron
- Camera
- Théo Robichet
- Sound
- Antoine Bonfanti
- Sound
- René Levert
- Clothing and hair
- Christiane Fageol
- Clothing and hair
- Janou Pottier
- Still photographer
- Marie-Lou Parolini
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