Army of Shadows
Aug 19 - Aug 20, 2009
(Jean-Pierre Melville, France/Italy, 1969, 35mm, 145 min)
Precursor of the New Wave and legend of the French gangster film, Jean-Pierre Melville realized his dream of a quarter century when he adapted Joseph Kessel’s The Book of the Resistance. Army Of Shadows is a riveting, intimate epic of the French Resistance in WWII. Melville himself served underground for years in his youth, and the director added a finale of his own that reduced Kessel to sobs on his first viewing.
