Army of Shadows
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Synopsis
An account of underground resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied France.
Cast
- Lino Ventura
- Paul Meurisse
- Jean-Pierre Cassel
- Simone Signoret
- Claude Mann
- Paul Crauchet
- Christian Barbier
- Serge Reggiani
- André Dewavrin
- Alain Dekok
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- Nov 24, 2013
It’s been a few days since I’ve watched Melville’s Army of Shadows, and I’ve been haunted. It steals into my thoughts both waking and asleep. I keep being enveloped by a fugue of uncertainty, loneliness, and fear. Army of Shadows defines heroism. Heroism because you…
Jonathan WhiteFeb 23, 2016Right from the startling opening image of Nazi's marching past the Arc de Triomphe, it's clear Army of Shadows is operating on a level few other war films ever have—this is World War II as a gangster tragedy, where even resistance fighters standing up and dying for one of…
Josh LewisAug 11, 2019Had the pleasure of seeing the 2017 restoration as part of the Jean-Pierre Melville: Master of French Noir series at The Cinematheque in Vancouver. One of my faves.
Sean Baker - Jul 14, 2020
he decided not to run anymore.
Logan KennyNov 3, 2015"Unhappy memories! Yet I welcome you, for you are my long lost youth.” It's hard to feel I have anything definitive to say about so monumental a movie on first viewing. The easiest thing to point out about it is the tragedy of its historical circumstances: it was one of…
ScreeningNotesNov 24, 2013Melville conveys what it is like to live in an occupied country with a single scene. His main character Philippe Gerbier, a renowned French Resistance organizer, is in London for a series of meetings with the British army. While he is taking a stroll in the evening the…
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survival itself as a luxury, earned by the pain of having to kill your own humanity so that it cannot be stolen from you by the oppressor; you will suffer, you will perish, you will be forgotten, but you must resist, you will exist. if we're all destined for the grave, you…
comrade_yuiSep 24, 2025It’s difficult not to be impressed by the magnitude of what unfolds here. The film is one of those rare works that seems to contradict the very idea of conventional war cinema. Instead of celebrating victory, it strips war down to its naked essence, fear, betrayal,…
noenJan 21, 2024Stoic gestures in face of death. A deeply controlled movie that remains impressively free.
Filipe Furtado
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- Julia lovedArmy of Shadows
ce film est l'un des meilleurs films français ou films de guerre que j'ai vu. le suspense, l'action et l'intrigue, je recommande vivement de regarder ce film
Fox likedArmy of Shadowsreally depressing but really good
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Metacritic
Infused with the bleak romanticism of Melville's gangster movies (Le Samouraï, Bob le Flambeur), and deepened by his own experiences in the Resistance, this hard-bitten tribute to freedom fighters makes most current movies look flabby and undisciplined. Don't miss it.
David Ansen
Newsweek
It's here that Melville fully achieved his notion of the sublime, applying Le Samouraï's empty compositions and near theatrical blocking, as well as its methodical suspense, cosmic fatalism, and sense of grim solitude, to a subject far closer to his heart, namely his own World War II experiences.
J. Hoberman
Village Voice
Composed of relatively few events and scenes, it's often excruciatingly tense and never less than heartbreakingly human. And as much as I admire Munich, Shadows leaves Spielberg's film in the dust in the moral-ambiguity department. Never before seen in the States, it's already on my year's ten-best list. (April 2006 Premiere)
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