Ignorant Movie Review:  The Shadow Army

Response to title:  Sweet, a horror movie!

Response to curbside poster:  Um...this looks particularly old/cheesy.

Response post-credits:  From beginning to end this movie stunned me.  I didn't realize I was going to be watching le cinéma français.  I thought it was going to be a horror movie...it's not.  It is one of the best movies I've ever seen.  I'm going to type that again.  This movie is one of the best movies I've ever seen.  Set in occupied France during WWII the movie is fictionally based on members of la Résistance.  The primary characters are well developed people (as opposed to just characters); the moral dilemmas are comprehensible, real & difficult to swallow; and the fact that I couldn't stop thinking about the resistors' mindsets in Iraq & Afghanistan after watching the movie made the subject matter extremely relevant.  The only people I would refrain recommending this movie to are francophobes and/or people who dislike foreign films with subtitles.  Otherwise, I urge every single person who can spare the money and time to go see this movie at the Olympia Film Society.

Rating:  4.99999etc. out of 5 Oly Stubbies

Film Haiku:  From the other side
            all we can see are shadows,
                 "a strange carousel."

Can be seen:  Olympia Film Society
                         206 5th Ave N
                     Olympia, WA  98501

                Wednesday, October 4th, 9pm
               Thursday, October 5th, 6:30pm