Jean-Luc Godard – Bande à part AKA Band of Outsiders (1964) (HD)

Two crooks with a fondness for old Hollywood B-movies convince a languages student to help them commit a robbery.

Jonathan Rosenbaum wrote:
To gauge the historical significance of Jean-Luc Godard’s Band of Outsiders (1964) — getting a week’s run in a lovely new print at the Music Box — it helps to know that it was made four years after François Truffaut’s Shoot the Piano Player and three years before Arthur Penn’s Bonnie and Clyde. Both Band of Outsiders and Shoot the Piano Player are low-budget black-and-white French thrillers adapted from American crime novels translated into French for the celebrated Serie Noire collection, and they were abject box-office flops on both sides of the Atlantic — though today they embody the glories of the French New Wave in a good many people’s minds. By contrast, Bonnie and Clyde, a Hollywood movie in color that was profoundly influenced by these two films, was a huge success, and its lyrical depictions of violence changed the direction of American cinema.

Jonathan Rosenbaum wrote:
All three films are mixtures of tragedy and farce, violence and romance, with an uncertain emotional tone. When Band of Outsiders and Shoot the Piano Player were first released, audiences didn’t know what to make of this mix, but when they saw Bonnie and Clyde they were exhilarated by its ambiguities. In part, this may have been because Bonnie and Clyde‘s color, stars, and period trappings were more glamorous, the violence much gaudier, and the storytelling more straightforward. Whatever the reason, audiences were by and large more ready for it in 1967 than most critics were. One might even say that while the New Wave films refused to gel for ordinary viewers, the eccentric, cavorting bank robbers of Bonnie and Clyde evoked such a bittersweet response that a kind of movie postmodernism was born — a cynical reluctance to take straight either comedy or tragedy in most crime pictures that has persisted ever since.

Bande a part 1964 1080p BluRay FLAC1.0 x264-CALiGARi.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 35 min
Size: 	12.0 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	1440x1080 
Aspect ratio:  	4:3
Frame rate: 	24.000 fps
Bit rate: 	17.5 Mb/s
BPP: 	0.469
Audio
#1:  	French 1.0ch FLAC @ 269 kb/s
#2:  	English 2.0ch AC-3 @ 192 kb/s (Commentary by film critic Adrian Martin)

https://nitro.download/view/CA273E469C31576/Bande_a_part_1964_1080p_BluRay_FLAC1.0_x264-CALiGARi.mkv

Language(s):French, English
Subtitles:English