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  Review by Nick Petrick ★★★★½ 7

  Quentin Tarantino wishes his films were this cool.

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  Review by ˗ˏˋ suspirliam ˊˎ˗ ★★★½

  the dance scene!!!! the louvre scene!!!!!!! ah that’s cinema

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  Review by Wes ★★★★½ 4

  jean luc godard could film someone eating a shoe and id still probably cry tears of joy

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  Review by CinemaVoid 🏴‍☠️ ★★★★

  In a single scene Godard predicted the advent of the tik tok era and the myriad of teens doing random choreographies in public spaces. A true visionary.

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  Review by Jack ★★½ 7

  i too would commit a crime if it meant i could hang out with Anna Karina

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  Review by mary ★★★½

  when your circle small but yall crazy

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  Review by Will Sloan

  Jean-Luc Godard is by all accounts a very difficult man. I don't know what Anna Karina saw in him. Had I been alive in Paris in the '60s I could have been a much better boyfriend.

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  Review by Larry ★★★★ 2

  +1 for Anna Karina
  +1 for jazzy French New Wave aesthetic
  +1 for dancing
  +1 for the Louvre scene
  +1 for being a lite 90 minutes
  -1 for the story being so god damn creepy

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  Review by Sean Baker 6

  Revisit after decades. The restoration released by Criterion is gorgeous. The special features are all worth the watch:

  SPECIAL FEATURES

  - New high-definition digital transfer, supervised by cinematographer Raoul Coutard (DVD edition); digital master of Gaumont’s 2010 high-definition restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
  - Visual glossary of references and quotations found in the film
  - Exclusive 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

  Watched on Criterion Channel

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  Review by Dirk Diggler ★★★★½

  Band of Outsiders is probably the most accessible and straight-forward Godard film i've seen so far as the experimentation is less, but that doesn't make any less brilliant and enjoyable. There's something effortlessly cool, charming and fun about it and it still manages to be thoughtful, melancholic and maintain a good layer of poetry with its flawed and human characters. It feels a bit unfocused, but that's also what's so great about it as it makes the film feel alive and spontaneous. The three iconic sequences (the minute of silence, the dance scene (!!), the louvre run) were really every bit as good and wonderful as proclaimed, and Anna Karina's screen presence is just lovely. I've really enjoyed the Godard…

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  Review by Filipe Furtado ★★★★ 1

  It makes sense Bande a part remains one of more popular Godard films as it is one of his most straighforward and least challenging and so a very ideal as JLG movie for people who don't like JLG that much. From 2021 perspective what strike me the most is how all the commentary about the guys movie obsessions which was supposed to do the heavy lifting into offering some distance and perspective now does the opposite. Just another element into the movieness of everything else. As a catalogue of Godard's most playful moves from the first five years of his career it remains irresistible and I'd certainly watch the technicolor cinemascope Brazilian adventures of Odile and Franz.

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  Review by kj ★★★★½

  JEANLUC
  CINÉMA
  GODARD

  that opening title sequence is god-art

  it’s very special when a detour in a film works and can even be the highlight instead of the central plot; the scenes "une minute de silence," in which arthur (claude brasseur) demonstrates that a minute of silence can last an eternity, and the trio's iconic and charming madison dance—joined by odile (anna karina) and franz (sami frey), which is repeatedly disrupted with narration by godard himself—yet ultimately overflows with impact and rhythm. tarantino’s pulp fiction dance scene wouldn't even be the same without it. and it only goes to show that godard has created his own visual style and can emphasize a scene while turning it into something else.
  
  “but we're the greatest
  they’ll hang us in the louvre
  down the back, but who cares—still the louvre”