It received positive critical reviews, and its dance scene has been referenced several times in popular culture.

She has told him of a large pile of money stashed in the villa where she lives with her aunt Victoria and Mr. Stolz in Joinville, a Parisian suburb.

Franz and Odile leave, and Arthur stays behind, saying he wants to check if Victoria really dead (but we infer he is going back to find the rest of the money).

The website's critical consensus calls the film "an oddball heist movie with an dark streak that picks apart every rule in filmmaking.

[5][6] According to critic Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, the film's outward charm contrasts with how sad it is: "Band Of Outsiders contains some of the medium's most sublime images of the anything-goes possibility of youth, but it also captures the hopelessness and loneliness of being young with nothing to do.

Whether they're planning a crime or performing an impromptu dance routine, the trio is mostly motivated by boredom, and everything carries a tinge of personal darkness.

The final scene of the movie is a longer reenactment in a café after one of the characters plays the music on a jukebox.

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.

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

The group took their name from a scene in the film, where Arthur and Odile are walking on a street and pass an emporium with Nouvelle Vague (New Wave or New Trend) in large letters over the door.

In a later scene, Franz, Arthur, and Odile attempt to break the world record for running through the Louvre museum.