A celebration of youth in the 60s but the story lets it down in the end
Band of Outsiders was a 1964 film by Jean Luc Godard. Like his earlier film Breathless it glorifies the new youth culture of the 1960s.<br /><br />The film has two distinct parts. First, it starts as a love triangle as two boys Franz and Arthur are both after the same girl Odile. Those same three characters are also involved in a robbery after Oldie tells the two boys about a bunch of cash in a house she lives in.<br /><br />More than just a heist film, it was also a celebration of the 1960s. Besides the flirting between the three characters, Franz has a convertible sports care that he likes racing around. Odile while talking to her aunt acts rebellious by rejecting everything she says. Her aunt tells her she doesn’t want her niece going to the movies to which she says she hates the movies. Then she says she doesn’t want Odile going to the theater, to which she says she hates the theater, etc. They run through the Louvre making a racket right past a security guard. There’s also a famous dance scene of the three in a café to a swinging R’n’B instrumental. These were all expressions of the youth culture that was formed in the 1960s. It was a one of free expression, and a rejection of their parents’ generation. That was all well expressed in Band of Ousiders and other films by Godard, which was part of the French New Wave. As the title suggests, that was a movement in France that rejected the old, and experimented with new styles in cinema.<br /><br />Given all that it’s surprising the ending Godard chose which highlights the contradictions between the old and young.<br /><br />In the end, Band of Outsiders is a very good representation of its times. The problem is the story is not strong enough to carry through to the end. There wasn’t the right balance between the love triangle and the robbery and the story kind of wanders in the middle as a result.<br />C
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Here is a brief synopsis of the title : Two restless young men enlist the object of their desire to help them commit a robbery - in her own home. French New Wave pioner Jean-Luc Godard takes to the streets of Paris to re-imagine the gangster genre, spinning an audacious yarn that's at once sentimental and insouciant, romantic and melancholy..