if the niece's silence gives intimate expression to a whole nation's resistance, Werner too, far from being demonised as a villain, himself becomes a dramatic embodiment of the tensions within occupied France.
Filmed in the most daring way imaginable, using a new cinematic language of transient expressions and glances, the film was a root influence on Bresson and the whole French New Wave.
The Occupation and its effects on people's emotional lives are recurrent themes in Melville's work, which has inspired the likes of Bresson, Astruc, Resnais and Rohmer.
Ein Film mit einer dichten Atmosphäre und guten Darstellern, der aber wirklich ziemlich langsam erzählt wird. Länger als diese 84 Minuten hätte der Film wirklich nicht gehen dürfen.
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