Led by a short, rotund man who carries a briefcase and speaks as if conserving his last reserves of emotion, the heroes of Army of Shadows engage in little of what counts for action these days. And ...

In 1969, celebrated French filmmaker Jean-Pierre Melville (Bob le Flambeur, Le Samouraï) released Army of Shadows, a bleak World War II epic that follows a small group of men involved in the French ...

Dir. Jean-Pierre Melville (1969). Jean-Pierre Melville fully achieved his notion of the sublime by employing the methodical suspense, cosmic fatalism, and grim solitude of his gangster films to his ...