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...

I posted this several months ago and it died horribly, but I am rooting for it again.

Lucky is going to nail you for abusing the cute tag, but Odile and the dance are Cute.

Well hopefully the cultural philistines will awaken. And anyways if Ayn Rand made it through the queue this certainly can.

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Ack. And yet discards from the excrement that was Anchorman will survive.

Something is broken.

Am really fucking disappointed.

saving this tomorrow...

a little late, but *save

Saving this video from queue deletion, sending it to the top of the queue for one more try. Originally submitted on Sunday 12th November 2006 (save called by gold star member plastiquemonkey)

Wonderful, thanks for the persistance.

Barring a flurry of downvotes, it may finally make it.

And then I expect that farhad will do that particular dance around the room.

There ya go . . . over the top.

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.

justice is served.

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

Godard can be painful. I usually prefer other films from people like Tarantino, Hartley, or Wong Kar Wai that reference Godard's quirks.

But Band of Outsiders is completely great and is NOT an ordeal.

Tags changed from "jean-luc godard, nouvelle vogue, sublime" to "jean-luc godard, nouvelle vague, sublime" by gold star member James Roe.

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