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Apparently the filmmaker Melville didn& #39;t just make hard-boiled films, he kept saying hard-boiled things.
I suppose having been in the Resistance and then the Free French forces grants you a bit of leeway.
I suppose having been in the Resistance and then the Free French forces grants you a bit of leeway.
Since I read about Jean-Pierre Melville I& #39;ve wanted to try the films. Watched Le Cercle Rouge today. It& #39;s good.
Sparse script. 160-minute film. Laconic.
Watched Army of Shadows this evening. Very good, just as @weakpettythief said. Will dwell in the memory.
Can& #39;t decide if this is the least heroic or the most heroic portrayal of the Resistance that I& #39;ve encountered.
Army of Shadows is much less austere than Le Cercle. Almost baggy with little interstitial narrations. (This isn& #39;t a demerit.)
Since people are retweeting it, the quotes at the head of this thread are from this article (paywalled): https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v41/n12/adam-shatz/who-does-that-for-anyone">https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper...
