Bande à part (1964) - Dance scene [HD]

Agustín Casas Solaro

Published on Jan 24, 2013

Movie: Bande à part
Year: 1964
Duration: 95'
Country: France
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Music: Michel Legrand
Photography: Raoul Coutard (B & W)
Cast: Anna Karina, Claude Brasseur, Sami Frey, Colpeyn Louisa, Darget Chantal, Ernest Menzer.

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When Franz, Arthur and Odile are in a crowded café, Arthur and Odile decide to dance. Franz joins them as they perform a dance routine. The music is R&B or soul music composed for the film by Michel Legrand, but Anna Karina said the actors called it "the Madison dance", alluding to a novelty dance of the time.[11] The Madison scene influenced the dance scene with Uma Thurman and John Travolta in Tarantino's Pulp Fiction.[12] It also influenced scenes in Hal Hartley's Simple Men[13] and Martin Hynes' The Go-Getter.[14] In Roger Michell's Le Week-End, the principal characters see the dance scene on a television in their Paris hotel room and briefly dance along with it. The final scene of the movie is a longer reenactment in a café after one of the characters plays the music on a jukebox. The entire dance scene was also used as the music video for the song "Dance with Me" by Nouvelle Vague from their album Bande à Part (2006). The group took their name from a scene in the film, where Arthur and Odile are walking on a street and pass a business with Nouvelle Vague (New Wave or New Trend) in large letters over the door.[citation needed]

In "The Gentlemen's Wager", a 2014 short film made to promote Johnnie Walker whiskey, Jude Law and a group of dancers perform the Madison dance in order to win a bet.[15]

Emma Stone, Jonah Hill, and Rome Kanda perform the dance in "Exactly Like You", the fifth episode of the 2018 Netflix series Maniac.[16]

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