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Give us an excuse to put Anna Karina on the Pitchfork news page, and we'll gladly take it!

A fairly obvious approach here, but it works: French covers act Nouvelle Vague pay homage to their namesake by borrowing a famous scene from French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard's Band of Outsiders (aka Bande à Part, which also happens to be the name of the troupe's second album) for their video for "Dance With Me" (a cover of the 1983 Lords of the New Church single). Got all that?

The clip features Karina and co-stars Sami Frey and Claude Brasseur busting a lil' move at a café-- however director Jarryd Lowder has only retained the handclaps from the original's jazz soundtrack. Three decades of disparate dots with the same name somehow connect-- New Wave filmmaking, new wave songwriting, and bossa nova music-- and the result is strangely captivating to behold.

Plus lord almighty does it beat the original tune's creeptastic video.