Bande à Part

Bande à Part

by Mark Mountjoy on 10-29-22

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1964 – France – 100min. – B&W Director: Jean Luc Goddard
Anna Karina, Claude Brasseur, Sami Frey

Unseen in the UK for 35 years (and only available now thanks to the efforts of the BFI), Bande à Part is Goddard’s gritty interpretation of a hollywood crime thriller transposed to grey Parisian suburbs. As ever, his foremost concern is the characters and, as ever in Goddard’s uneasy universe, they are troubled, dysfunctional and on the verge of crisis. The film is centred on the personal and social isolation of three misfits planning a robbery. Black humour is tinged with a growing sense of foreboding as their uneasy alliance crumbles and the heist goes disastrously wrong…