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VIDEO: L'Armee Des Ombres

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L'Armee Des Ombres
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Length: 02:27:00
Posted: 10/19/2008

France, 1942, during the occupation. Philippe Gerbier, a civil engineer, is one of the French Resistance's chiefs. Given away by a traitor, he is interned in a camp. He manages to escape, and joins his network at Marseilles, where he makes the traitor be executed... This non-spectacular movie (do not expect any Rambo or Robin Hood) shows us rigorously and austerely the everyday of the French Resistants : their solitude, their fears, their relationships, the arrests, the forwarding of orders and their carrying out... Both writer Joseph Kessel and co-writer and director Jean-Pierre Melville belonged to this "Army in the Shadows". watch

VIDEO: L'Armee Des Ombres

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L'Armee Des Ombres
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Length: 02:27:00
Posted: 4/13/2008

France, 1942, during the occupation. Philippe Gerbier, a civil engineer, is one of the French Resistance's chiefs. Given away by a traitor, he is interned in a camp. He manages to escape, and joins his network at Marseilles, where he makes the traitor be executed... This non-spectacular movie (do not expect any Rambo or Robin Hood) shows us rigorously and austerely the everyday of the French Resistants : their solitude, their fears, their relationships, the arrests, the forwarding of orders and their carrying out... Both writer Joseph Kessel and co-writer and director Jean-Pierre Melville belonged to this "Army in the Shadows". watch

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Length: 02:13
Posted: 7/23/2009

Set against the glitzy backdrop of the French Riviera and its seedy underworld is Academy Award-winner Neil Jordan's clever, sexy caper, The Good Thief. Bob Montagnet (Nick Nolte) is about to gamble it all on the casino heist of a lifetime; a spectacular sleight of hand - two heists, one real, one not, but which is which? Inspired by the Jean Pierre Melville classic Bob Le Flambeur, The Good Thief is a remake of an original that features a complex plot full of copies and originals. The film's hero draws his inspiration from the man he regards as the greatest thief and copycat of all...Picasso. Under the watchful eye of Roger (Tcheky Karyo), a policeman who would as soon save his longtime opponent as arrest him, Montagnet assembles a team that consists of partners Paulo (Said Taghmaoui) and Raoul (Gerard Darmon), technical mastermind Vladimer (Emir Kusturica), former-drug-dealer-turned-informant Said (Ouassini Embarek), Anne (Nutsa Kukhianidze), a young Eastern European girl Montagnet r watch

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Title Year Type
The Good Thief (Source) 2003 Movie
A Cop (Writer) 1972 Movie
A Cop (Director) 1972 Movie
Army Of Shadows (Writer) 1969 Movie
Army Of Shadows (Director) 1969 Movie

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DVD Tuesday: A Casino, A Heist and Paris by Night: Bob le Flambeur

Bob Le Flambeur A cool stylish and oh-so-French heist thrillerSend your movie questions to FlickChickSee Maitland McDonagh and Ken Fox review this weeks new flicks in Movie TalkWith Oceans Thirteen opening this Friday I found myself thinking about some of my favorite heist and caper movies et voil224 Bob le Flambeur was one of the first to spring to mind Its this weeks DVD Tuesday pickThe plot is a variation on classic caper themes 50-year-old Bob Montagne Roger Duchesne is a reformed bank robber turned compulsive gambler a flambeur currently down on his luck and sensible enough to know hes getting too old to be living hand to hand But he still has his formidable reputation his silver-fox good looks and his admirers including young Paulo whod love to be just like Bob when he grows up but just doesnt have the right stuff Bob is so effortlessly cool that when he needs a lift home after a night of high-stakes cards the cops give him a lift And he maint read more

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