(FILM) This absolutely stunning film about the French Resistance has, incredibly,
never before been distributed in the U.S. Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville with all the clenched drama of his better-known gangster flicks,
Army of Shadows darts from concentration-camp breakouts to
clandestine trips across the English Channel in a submarine, taking queasy detours into the extremes of movement discipline and the ordeal of parachuting into Vichy France. It's the most
righteously complex movie about the Resistance I've ever seen. (
Harvard Exit, see Movie Times, page 95, for more info.)