'Bande A Part' is Jean-Luc Godard's playful tribute to the Hollywood pulp crime movies of the 1940s, executed with typically Gallic cool.

Franz and Arthur, a couple of streetwise characters, team up with the shy Odile (Anna Karina) to plan a robbery. As the trio of misfits does a lightning tour of the Louvre, roams the cafes of suburban Paris and play-acts shoot-outs, the suspicion grows that this is one heist that is not going to go according to plan...