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Reviews

Le Deuxième Souffle

By Stephen Snart

Melville’s entertaining crime thriller favors quiet suspense over ostentatious action. [11 December 2008]

Les Enfants Terribles

By Michael Buening

A partnership between the tough suspense artist Jean- Pierre Melville and the precocious Jean Cocteau might look odd, but the tensions and conflicts served the twisted, mythic world of Les Enfants Terribles rather nicely. [7 September 2007]

Army of Shadows (1969)

By Jack Patrick Rodgers

A timeless and decidedly sober look at the desultory nature of everyday life during wartime. [31 May 2007]

By Ryan Vu

In Jean-Pierre Melville's 1969 film, shadows conceal men whose only moral principle and greatest crime is the desire for freedom. [10 May 2006]