Saturday, November 8, 2014

Top 1969: L'armée des ombres


The film was released in the political context of the post- May 68 . Paying tribute to the Resistance and General de Gaulle , he was sometimes a negative criticism, especially from the Cahiers du Cinema , which then were beginning a shift to a more political discourse.

These bad reviews echoes dissuaded American programmers to distribute the film in the United States . He finally came out in 2006 and was a late release this cinematic event unanimously applauded by the specialized critics . It has even been rated as the best film of the year by critics of the magazine American Premiere of Newsweek , the LA Weekly and the New York Times . He received the award for Best Foreign Language Film at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards 2006, and Best Film at the 2006 First Annual LA Weekly Film Critics Poll , . On the website Rotten Tomatoes , the film collects 97% positive reviews with an average score of 8.6 / 10 based on 73 reviews collected and, on the website Metacritic , it gets a score of 99 / 100, based on 24 reviews .

Upon its release in theaters in September 1969 , Army of Shadows is experiencing a modest beginning with 29 200 entries in three rooms of Paris , for an average of 9733 entries per room, but manages to remain in the top ten entries in several weeks . Remained fifteen weeks playing in Paris, it totals 455,134 entries in the capital and its suburbs . By province, the film combines 946,688 entries to 1,401,822 entries total during its initial release .

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