Thanks to PlastiqueMonkey!

DjSunKid, I know what you mean I hated Godard until I saw 'Bande à part', because it turned out to be the most accessible of his films.

And RickeGee, I already have

I'm so glad that this is on the sift. I made the mistake of renting Weekend by Jean-Luc Godard and it was absolutely the worst movie I've ever seen, bar none. I definitly want to see some more Godard, since all the movie nerds seem to go on about how great he was, but have been reluctant since that experience. This clip is great.

This is the famous dancing sequence from Jean-Luc Godard's Bande à part, released in 1964 and known as 'Band Of Outsiders' to the west. The film is serves as a prime example of French new wave cinema, this particular sequence impressed Quentin Tarantino so much that he payed homage via similar scene in Pulp Fiction, and named his production company 'A Band Apart', Jean-Luc Godard himself said that he would have preferred if Quentin Tarantino simply paid him. I love Anna Karina and the scene's composition, cinematography, direction and the actors simply yet oddly hypnotic movements. The seemingly incidental expositionary dialogue and overall sound composition adds to the scene tremendously.

Arthur nervously watches his feet but thinks of Odile's mouth and her romantic kisses

Odile wonders if the boys notice her breasts moving as she dances

Franz thinks of everything and nothing... uncertain if reality is becoming dream, or dream reality...

There is a interesting user-made music video remix on the Sift that uses this exact sequence and sets it to the music of bossanova giant Nouvelle Vague. Check it out.