Band of Outsiders (1964)

The heist film filtered through the idiosyncratic vision of Jean-Luc Godard. I was apprehensive about this after my last exposure to the world of Jean-Luc, but thankfully this is more akin to Breathless than Two or Three Things.... Godard's in a playful mood, and he's not trying to change the world or anything -- he's just out to make a movie that screws with the conventions of crime drama. And considering how deliriously entertaining the results are (a minute of silence! the dance sequence! the ladder! Anna Karina!), I'm suddenly okay with the French New Wave again.

Grade: A-