Army of Shadows Comments

  • Johnathan 2022-03-16 09:01:09

    The film is by no means denying the revolution or showing the objectivity of the so-called revolution or resistance movement. On the contrary, facing the reality of the resistance movement directly reflects the inhumanity of war and the greatness and humility of being a resistance fighter...

  • Pearlie 2022-03-16 09:01:09

    SIFF@Hengshan. Calm, distressed, concise and realistic. To render the anti-war heroes, their own weakness, perseverance, and confusion. The photography is exquisite, and the two impressive scenes are the confrontation with the sentry and the look around the mirror when escaping, and the blue and gray German troops passing the Champs-Elysees. The memoir style of the first-person interspersed and marching aggravates this sense of destiny and...

  • Gennaro 2022-03-15 09:01:11

    It makes me sad. Is war really as the video says, exposing the most noble and ugliest side of human...

  • Branson 2022-03-15 09:01:11

    Probably one of the best movies ever made about the Resistance/Underworld. 1. The characters in Melville's films always seem lonely, stern and resolute, but their hearts are buried with struggles and questions, and weak moments are blocked out of the picture. A fatalistic sense of hopelessness is intertwined with belief at a critical moment, as in Camus' Sisyphus. 2. The film is immersed in a dark blue, claustrophobic composition, minimal editing and scheduling, omitting white space (such as...

  • Haley 2022-03-13 08:01:01

    Several times of wind and rain, several times of autumn, half of the river and half of the river is red, the humble does not dare to forget the country, and the infinite scenery is on the dangerous peak. Back then, a generation of arrogant Napoleon was an iron horse, swallowing thousands of miles like a tiger. On the Arc de Triomphe, it runs through Changhong and leans into Qionglou. Don't you see, the long river and the sunset have already drawn cards, it is an extravagant hope to retreat, the...

Extended Reading

Army of Shadows quotes

  • Jean François Jardie: She said five minutes, but she'll wait a lifetime.

  • Philippe Gerbier: See you later, Comrade.

    Legrain: ...You're a communist?

    Philippe Gerbier: No. But I can still have comrades.

Army of Shadows

Director: Jean-Pierre Melville

Language: French,German,English Release date: June 19, 1970