Bande à part
I’m currently re-watching some german movies to make Alstan be more familiar with the sound of the german language. We watched “Das Leben der Anderen” and “Die fetten Jahre sind vorbei”, what else what should watch? Hmm…
I originally wanted to put everything into one post, but I think it doesn’t do justice to the movies, so here onto the post:
The most memorable parts about this movie are two short scenes: The dancing in the café and running through the Louvre. (I want to do that!) Both are barely important for the storyling to develop, and don’t show all that much about the rather unlikeable, illogical characters, so what’s so great about them? Well, it’s the originality of these particular details and the style that make this movie so beautifully french.
I didn’t get fond with the story itself though – we have another slightly stupid and annoying female main character and two rude and unlikeable males who use and rob her, even though both develop some kind of feelings for her. Oh well, even there these feelings are of rather egoistic and sexual nature. At the end of the day, the characters are not what you should care about in this Nouvelle Vague movie: it’s the storytelling, the style and those details I mentioned that made “Bande à part” worth a watch for me. I can see why this movie is a classic, but I definitely wouldn’t recommend it unless to a Nouvelle Vague fan.