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In the middle of planning a robbery, the three main characters—Arthur, Franz, and Odile—decide to take a break in a Parisian café. They don’t talk. They don't fight. They just perform a synchronized line dance called the Madison. Godard famously cuts the music in and out so you can hear the characters' internal thoughts. It’s a scene about nothing that became everything in cinema history.

Critically described by Pauline Kael as a "reverie of a gangster movie," Bande à part isn't really about the crime. It’s about the feeling of being young, bored, and obsessed with American B-movies. It deconstructs the genre while paying a loving, messy homage to it. Banda aparte

There is "cool," and then there is Jean-Luc Godard in 1964 "cool". In the middle of planning a robbery, the