Band of Outsiders

Yassine Ait Ali will join us to provide a brief introduction before the film. Yassine is a PhD candidate in the French & Italian Department and the founding director of the Princeton French Film Festival.

Considered one of Jean Luc-Godard’s most accessible films and featuring one of cinema’s most effortlessly cool dance sequences. Anna Karina plays a language student who teams with a pair of rebellious youths to commit a robbery that goes awry. BAND OF OUTSIDERS is a subversive and self aware gangster film that critiques and deconstructs the very genre it’s paying homage to — making it a true staple of the French New Wave. In French w/ subtitles.

Yassine Ait Ali is a Ph.D. student in the Department of French & Italian at Princeton University and was an Ivy Plus Exchange Scholar in the Department of Comparative Literature at Harvard University in 2023-2024.

Born to Moroccan Amazigh parents and schooled in the beautiful region of Seine-et-Marne, France, Yassine studied French, Arabic, and Comparative Literature at Sorbonne Université and read for an MPhil in Modern Languages at the University of Oxford where he mainly concentrated on Enlightenment Studies, World Literature, Digital Humanities, and Disability Studies. He wrote his dissertation on 1750−1830 French and English female authors (Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni, Ann Radcliffe, Charlotte de Bournon, Comtesse de Malarme).

His current interests regard what he calls Classica Francophonia, a term he coined to refer to the rich and various ways in which contemporary Francophone authors, artists, and filmmakers from all over the world (with a focus on Africa and the Caribbean) engage with classical and canonical works of Europe. His thesis focuses on the reinventions of Homeric homecoming in the literature and films of the Interwar period (1918-1939).

Director Jean Luc-Godard

Cast Anna Karina, Sami Frey, Claude Brasseur

Country France

Language French (with subtitles)

Aspect 1.37

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