Jean-Luc Godard: Now and Then: Band of Outsiders
All these years after its release, Band of Outsiders remains a cinematic breath of fresh air.
Film/Video Theater
Band of Outsiders (Bande à part, Jean-Luc Godard, 1964) is late, revolutionary director Jean-Luc Godard’s New Wave twist on the classic gangster film, starring the luminous Anna Karina. Karina plays Odile, a bored suburban girl who follows two ne’er-do-wells (Claude Brasseur and Sami Frey), who fall for Odile while enlisting her to pull off a robbery. A robbery, it turns out, of her aunt’s villa. Charming and exuberant—not words typically associated with a crime movie—the film’s mad dash through the Louvre and impromptu café dance sequence have been mimicked by filmmakers ever since. (97 mins., DCP)
Preceded by Scénarios and Exposé du film annonce du film “Scénario” (Jean-Luc Godard, 2024). Two years after his death, Godard's two final short films have been released. Scénarios collages paintings, film clips, and narration, movingly read on-screen by Godard the day before his assisted death. (17 mins., DCP) In the longer companion film, Exposé du film annonce du film “Scénario”, Godard outlines a previous version of the project giving a glimpse of both a feature film never to be made and of his still agile mind at work. (35 mins., DCP)