Bande à part (film)
Bande à part, or Band of Outsiders is a 1964 comedy / drama / film noir by French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard, adapted from the American 1950s pulp fiction Fools' Gold by Dolores Hitchens. Described by Godard himself as "Alice in Wonderland meets Franz Kafka," the film is considered one of the foremost of the French new wave. Odile (Anna Karina) meets wannabe criminals Arthur (Claude Brasseur) and Franz (Sami Frey) in an English language class and the three attempt to stage a robbery. One of Godard's loveliest and most accessible films, it is best known for its Madison (dance) dance sequence (which inspired Quentin Tarantino and Hal Hartley) and a record-breaking nine-minute run through the Louvre.