Hopefully, this re-release will spawn new interest and permit the real film buff the chance to see what has been hidden from us for over 35 years.
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06/23/06
Army of Shadows (1969)
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Reviews Counted:71
Fresh:69
Rotten:2
Average Rating:8.6/10
Consensus: Originally made in 1969, this recently reissued classic is a masterful examination of the inner workings of the World War II resistance efforts.
Theatrical Release:Apr 28, 2006 Limited
Box Office: $231,660
Synopsis: Well-known for his influential crime films (LE SAMOURAI, LE CERCLE ROUGE), director Jean-Pierre Melville explores the lives of French Resistance fighters in his moody World War II masterpiece, ARMY... [More]
Starring: Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Simone Signoret
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
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Reviews for Army of Shadows
If anything, the vision is more fatalistic than any of Melville's crime classics.
06/23/06
Like all Melville's films, it's as cold as cold can be and completely free of exhilarating heroics.
06/16/06
The results bear witness to a time when sacrifice was bleached of everything but itself.
06/16/06
Melville's impressionistic look at the Resistance is without a doubt the best war film I never knew existed.
06/04/06
Masterfully restrained yet frequently nerve-wracking, with sequences on par with Hitchcock at his most tension-filled, this film is one of Melville's best.
06/02/06
What’s so devastating about Army of Shadows is how physically we respond to the terrible decisions faced by the resistance fighters.
05/30/06
Top CriticRarely has a film shown so truly that place in the heart where hope lives with fatalism.
05/26/06
Top CriticIt becomes overwhelming as we watch -- a classic of life in the underground, of terror, love, friendship, betrayal, and of death hovering over all.
05/25/06
Top CriticA morally ambiguous look at the necessity, the perversity and, sometimes, the generosity of death during wartime.
05/25/06
It is arguably the tensest, hardest-edged movie of Melville's career ... and that's saying something.
05/25/06
... the most meaningful atmosphere of exquisite suspense you're likely to see at the movies this year. Or most years.
05/23/06
Top CriticMasterfully made, with no detail unattended.
05/12/06
Top CriticMovies don't get any better than this.
05/12/06
It's a strange enough film, yet weirdly great. No movie has quite gotten the clammy weight of fear, the sense of hopelessness that would necessarily haunt underground workers.
05/11/06
Top Critic[Those] with a weakness for dry heroism, dark-toned humor, and storytelling of pantherish pace and grace -- in short, lovers of cinema -- should reach for their fedoras, turn up the collars of their coats, and sneak to this picture through a mist of rain.
05/01/06
The cast of characters is small and well-drawn by an ensemble of veteran actors.
04/28/06
Top Critic... taut tale of intrigue and daring ...
04/28/06
Almost 40 years after it was made, Army of Shadows has more to tell us about the internal toll of war and taking a stand than anything Hollywood has produced.
04/28/06
Top Critic... a riveting historical film noir.
04/28/06
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