Army of Shadows and the Unforgiving Code of Jean-Pierre Melville
[Originally published in slightly different form on GreenCine in 2006, in conjunction with the American theatrical release of Army of Shadows.] Jean-Pierre Melville is surely the ultimate cult auteur in the French cinema. Spiritual godfather of the French New Wave (Jean-Luc Godard paid tribute to Melville with a generous cameo in his debut feature Breathless), [...]
