: A Spanish band (Band À Part) influenced by Godard and Sarah Records.
There is "cool," and then there is Jean-Luc Godard in 1964 "cool".
If you’ve ever seen a slow-motion dance scene in a hipster indie film or watched characters break into a spontaneous, choreographed routine in a café, you’ve seen the DNA of Bande à part (released in English as Band of Outsiders ). It’s the film that inspired Quentin Tarantino to name his production company and gave the band Nouvelle Vague its name. 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?
: A French-American duo founded by poet Jayne Bliss and musician M. : A Spanish band (Band À Part) influenced
: A Los Angeles-based outfit known for their consumerist critiques and moody sound.
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. It’s the film that inspired Quentin Tarantino to
In the middle of planning a robbery, the three main characters—Arthur, Franz, and Odile—decide to take a break in a Parisian café. They don’t talk. They don't fight. They just perform a synchronized line dance called the Madison. Godard famously cuts the music in and out so you can hear the characters' internal thoughts. It’s a scene about nothing that became everything in cinema history.