Film of the Week: Army of Shadows (1969)

Although this French film did not see release in the United States until 2006, it was released in France in 1969. This exquisitely artistic film is one of the best kept secrets of French cinema. Mafia movie director Jean Pierre Melvile set aside the mob to shoot this dark look at the French Resistance in World War Two. Melvile brings together a superb cast in one of the most poignant films about the Sceond World War.