Blindspot 2018: Cult Films of the 1950s to 1970s: Bande à part (Band of Outsiders)
I'm a week bit late with my (technically) November blindspot selection, in which I watched Jean-Luc Godard's 1964 film Bande à part, known in North America as Band of Outsiders. Franz (Sami Frey) and Arthur (Claude Brasseur) are two friends who come up with a plan to steal a large stash of money at a villa in Joinville, outside of Paris. They enlist the help of Odile (Anna Karina), a woman who lives in the villa with her aunt Victoria (Louisa Colpeyn) and was the one to originally tell Franz in an English class they took together. As the two criminals plan their heist, they each develop romantic inclinations towards Odile.
Since my time in film school, during which many of his films were part of the curriculum, I have had a love/hate relationship with French New Wave pioneer Jean-L...