The American Gangster in Film

Gudard's early films are a very alluring document of the time leading up to may sixty eight in paris and these kinds of you know bourgeois young people. You have this kind of allure of the american underclass or the gangster which is filtered through film like tarantino, cagney from sort of cagney on. It seems as if this romanticized archetype of the  gangster that's come through the french new wave of gudard and others.