Army of Shadows
A film by Jean-Pierre Melville
NR, 145 minutes, In French with English subtitles

“Best film of the year.” -The New York Times

“**** (highest rating) An intimate epic! Excruciatingly tense and never less than heartbreakingly human! Already on my year’s 10 best list!”
–Premiere Magazine
“For the first, and maybe the only, time this year, you are in the hands of a master.”
-- Anthony Lane, The New Yorker.

“A rare work of art that thrills the senses and the mind…Worthy of that overused superlative MASTERPIECE!”
– Manohla Dargis, New York Times

A gorgeous restoration of Jean-Pierre Melville's 1969 epic of the French Resistance during World War II, starring Lino Ventura and Simone Signoret. Based on the novel by Joseph Kessel (perhaps best known for Belle de Jour), the film draws on the wartime experiences of Kessel and Melville himself, both active members of the Resistance and Free French Forces. This is the first time the film has ever been released n the United States, and in spite of being over 30 years old, was picked as one of the best films of 2006 by film critics around the country.