The Army of Crime/L’Armée du Crime

My short review:
Once upon a time and yet this is NOT fiction, some individuals gave their lives so that we could attempt to live. A tight script recounts in small troubling vignettes the sacrifice of twenty three of them, and two hours seems too short of a time frame to reveal the passions and torment of the Red Poster/Affiche Rouge heroes.
Respect & resistance/rebellion/revolution (wherever/whenever) are the eternal themes: as explosive as the film ‘Z’ was, forty years ago. Cf. L’Affiche Rouge/The Red Poster–>A+

The French film site, and the distributor site in English.

[My father was part of the same network and I spent my entire childhood contemplating some sawed off iron bars that had been carefully put back in place to offer an escape route to the roof, in case the French police, during the war, were to knock on my apartment.]
An interview with the director, Robert Guédiguian, in TimeOut, who claims that yes indeed, his film was done in the shadow of Melville’s classic, “The Army of Shadows”, but considered that film a Gaullist perspective.