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Thus, in "Army of Shadows" (1969), set during the wartime struggles of the French Resistance, the heroine is serenely efficient, fearless, and discreet, save for one tiny weakness.
In Army of One, a man who experiences hallucinations due to kidney disease has a vision of God, sparking an ill-advised misadventure.
Melville's immersion in the world of cops and robbers can make these ethical questions less resonant than they are in "Army of Shadows," where the stakes are higher, the characters' choices more excruciating.
The tick of the grandfather clock in the peaceful parlor of "Le Silence de la Mer" is echoed, twenty years later, in "Army of Shadows," when Gerbier — a leading light in the shadows of the Resistance, played by the matchless Lino Ventura — is taken to Gestapo headquarters, in what used to be a luxury hotel.
By The New Yorker January 11 , 2011As if responding to Jean-Pierre Melville's ethnically neutral and depoliticized version of the French Resistance in "Army of Shadows," the French director Robert Guédiguian turns to the pages of history for "Army of Crime," a Second World War drama about the Manouchian Group of resisters.
But actually, you are sporadically assailed by the terrible fear that some of the lyrics might be about that very topic – that the Adventure of a Lifetime alluded to in one title might involve the newly single frontman swashbuckling his way through a variety of conquests, among them the lady he approvingly, if oddly, compares to both the Pyramids and the Hanging Gardens of Babylon in Army of One.
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Mr. Mailer's writing has never been better than when he acted as journalist, in his account, for example, of the protests against the Vietnam War, in "Armies of the Night".
In his writing, he could sometimes discipline himself into achieving those moments, as when he imagined the mind-set of a policeman in "Armies of the Night," but onscreen he needed to get hit.
After Baca and others moved the festival into the various bars, clubs and shops along Denver's Broadway Avenue, the event swelled in size, bringing in armies of musicians and drunken revelers to the rapidly Brooklyn-izing neighborhood.
Dany looks cute in her army-of-the-dead-fighting dress, too.
This year our budget calculations allow for cuts in army personnel of 700,000 men.
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