Aug 4, 2007
Army of Shadows
The other night we watched Jean-Pierre Melville’s The Army of Shadows (L’Armée des Ombres) and its one of those movies that has been sitting with me since it ended. This movie was made back in 1969 but wasn’t released here in the States until last year. For those critics brave enough to include a 1969 movie in their 2006 year-end lists (it was a theatrical release), it was the ranked their number 1 or number 2 movie last year.
There isn’t much more to say about it besides that it’s brilliant. It is about the French Resistance in WWII but its more about being human. Its definitely not an American action flick (as so many WWII films are) its simply art and history. Beautiful.