Army of Shadows

This is the most perfect combination of Melville’s cool, dispassionate style and subject matter. He works well in the gangster/crime genres, but taking this sort of subdued, quiet approach to telling a story works extremely well when combined with the complete and total sense of danger felt by the Resistance in the early days of German occupation of France in World War II. The all encompassing sense of fear and dread is materially different when talking about the Resistance in its early days...