The gang of outsiders
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| German title | The gang of outsiders |
| Original title | Gang à part |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1964 |
| length | 97 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Jean-Luc Godard |
| script | Jean-Luc Godard |
| production | Philippe Dussart |
| music | Michel Legrand |
| camera | Raoul Coutard |
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Françoise Collin Dahlia Ezove Agnès Guillemot |
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The outsider gang (original title: Bande à part ) is a feature film by Jean-Luc Godard from 1964 . Anna Karina , Godard's wife at the time, as well as Sami Frey and Claude Brasseur play the leading roles . Godard wrote the script based on a detective novel ("Fool's Gold") by Bert and Dolores Hitchens .
action
Franz and Arthur, two young men with a weakness for hardened American heroes, plan a break-in. Franz met the young Odile in an English course, who works as a housemaid in an elegant villa in Joinville . Odile told him about a large number of bundled banknotes that were unlocked in Monsieur Stolz's room.
Arthur easily wins the trust of the naive-innocent Odile and makes her an accomplice to the two friends who have their eye on her. Odile is torn between frivolous submission and defiant resistance. The three spend the next few days on casual excursions in Franz ' Simca Cabriolet and in Parisian cafes and Odile seems to fall in love with Arthur.
When Arthur's dodgy uncle presses him to get the money, Franz and Arthur take action: In broad daylight they break into the villa in the presence of Odile and Madame Victoria, but find Monsieur Stolz's room locked. Arthur's tone is getting rougher and he hits Odile, who is supposed to get the key by the next day.
The following day, Madame Victoria pulls out the key at a pistol, is handcuffed, gagged and locked in a closet. In the room, however, Arthur and Franz only find a single wad of money. When they want to find out the other hiding places of Madame Victoria, they find them lifeless and think they are dead. They flee the villa in their panic, with Arthur staying behind under a pretext.
Meanwhile, on the way home, Franz and Odile see Arthur's uncle drive to the villa and turn back. You will witness how Arthur and his uncle fight a pistol duel for possession of the money found in the dog house, in which both die. Then they watch the arrival of Monsieur Stolz, who picks up the money lying around and meets Madame Victoria, who was believed to be dead, at the front door.
Franz and Odile flee unobserved. They confess their love to each other and want to move to South America with the small portion of the money they found first . On the ship you can hear the narrator off- screen : "In the next film I'll tell you - in widescreen and technicolor, of course - Franz and Odile's adventures in distant southern countries."
background
- With this film Godard dedicates himself to American pulp culture and the B-movie in a parodic form . The film is based on a trivial novel, the plot of which, with a narrated time of several months, he condenses to three days in his script. The film was shot in just 25 days. The pace at which the protagonists race through the area is remarkable: in the car with the roof down or on foot through the Louvre in the record time of 9 minutes and 43 seconds . You break an alleged 9 minutes and 45 seconds record by an American tourist named Jimmy Johnson.
- Several directors were influenced by the film; Among other things, Quentin Tarantino named the dance scene as a model for the joint dance of Mia Wallace and Vincent Vega in Pulp Fiction .
- Bernardo Bertolucci, on the other hand, quoted the scene in which the three protagonists sprint through the Louvre in his 2003 film The Dreamers .
- The song that Odile sings in the Métro comes from a passage from Louis Aragon's poem J'entends, j'entends (in his volume of poems Les Poètes ) and was later musically interpreted by Jean Ferrat .
- Patrick Modiano , whose mother played Madame Victoria, reported in a conversation that a scene of the film on quai Conti was recorded from his room in his parents' apartment.
- The film was re-examined in 2013 and was approved for ages 12 and over. He was previously released from 16.
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The film received almost exclusively positive reviews and achieved a rating of 94% on Rotten Tomatoes , based on 48 reviews, and 91% from the audience with around 12,500 votes. At Metacritic , a Metascore of 88, based on nine reviews, could be achieved. At IMDb , the film received 7.8 out of a possible 10 stars with around 20,700 votes. (Status: December 4, 2019) The outsider gang was selected in 2005 in the Time selection of the best 100 films from 1923 to 2005 .
“A gangster parody set on two levels of reality with an abundance of visual, acoustic and narrative gags. The gray in gray and the desolation of the Parisian banlieue is captured extremely sensitively by black and white photography. A very imaginative comedy, at the same time probably Godard's most cheerful and most easily accessible work. "
“Godard translates this simple story into ironic cinema in which space and time are upside down. Conclusion: Godard turns trash into art. "
literature
- Frieda Grafe : Film criticism in: Film criticism . February 1965. (Republished in: Film für Film. (= Frieda Grafe: Selected Writings in Individual Volumes. Volume 9). Brinkmann & Bose, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-922660-95-9 , pp. 27–31).
Web links
- Bande à part in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Film review by Ekkehard Knörer in Jump Cut Magazine
- Brief review on critic.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for The Outsider Gang . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , December 2012 (PDF; test number: 32 773 V).
- ↑ Les Cahiers de l'Herne: Modiano , Paris 2012; Patrick Modiano in conversation with Antoine de Gaudemar, p. 235.
- ↑ a b c The Outsider Gang at Rotten Tomatoes (English) , accessed on December 4, 2019.
- ↑ a b c The Outsider Gang at Metacritic (English), accessed on December 4, 2019.
- ↑ a b Bande à part in the Internet Movie Database (English) , accessed on 4 December of 2019.
- ↑ The Outsider Gang. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ cf. cinema.de