Critically described by Pauline Kael as a "reverie of a gangster movie," Bande à part isn't really about the crime. It’s about the feeling of being young, bored, and obsessed with American B-movies. It deconstructs the genre while paying a loving, messy homage to it.
Before the characters in The Dreamers tried it, Arthur, Franz, and Odile set the world record for running through the Louvre Museum—clocked at exactly 9 minutes and 43 seconds. It’s the ultimate middle finger to high-brow tradition, turning a temple of art into a playground. Banda aparte
But what makes a sixty-year-old black-and-white heist movie about two restless guys and a girl still feel like a fresh breeze? Critically described by Pauline Kael as a "reverie
There is "cool," and then there is Jean-Luc Godard in 1964 "cool". Before the characters in The Dreamers tried it,