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Just found out Nouvelle Vague have an album called Bande A Part, so the song was probably written precisely for this clip.

Is this a bait to get out of the wood? "Bande à part" (which can be loosely translated by "stray band" or "misfits") is an elegy of a film. And this scene is über-cool.
Quentin Tarantino showed it to Uma T. and John T. for them to re-create in the "Jack Rabbit Slims Twist Contest" of his "Pulp Fiction"
I love the way Jean-Luc Godard cuts the continuity of the scene by introducing voice-over (his own) and the score (music and the actors' clapping).
Have I said that I'm a JLG fanatic. I fell in love with Anna Karina after seeing this film when I was 17

I might as well add some subtitles to Jean-Luc Godard's voice-over:
"Now it's time to insert a second parenthesis and to describe the characters' feelings... Arthur is constantly keeping his eyes on his feet but is thinking about Odile's lips, about her romantic kisses... Odile is wondering if the two boys have noticed her breasts which move under her jumper with her every step... Franz is thinking about every thing and nothing at all. He isn't sure whether the world is turning into a dream or if the dream into the world..."
Left to right:
Arthur: Claude Brasseur
Odile: Anna Karina
Franz: Sami Frey

The Novelle Vague / Bande Apart song is a cover of a song by Stiv Bators post punk band _Lords of the New Church_.

Hal Hartley is one of my favorite directors, in every movie he does he works in a tribute to this "Bande a Part" scene. From _Simple Men_.