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I picked up Jean-Pierre Melville's 1949 debut on Blu-Ray recently. It's one of those haunting little movies which seem to fall through the cracks because of its lack of name actors and its budgetary constraints (although it's interesting that first-time cinematographer Henri Decae went on to shoot many highly-praised movies by Truffaut and Malle).
All the action basically takes place in a living room in 1941 (the actual living room of Vercors, the French novelist and resistance fighter, upon whose novel the movie is based) and involves three people - a Frenchman, his adult niece, and a German officer billeted with them. Only the German speaks on screen. The Frenchman narrates the movie via voice-over. I won't give too much away, but the story involves a battle of wits as each side tries to out-resist the other. If you like pre-New Wave French cinema (Bresson, Renoir, etc) you will probably like this. I love discovering movies like this.
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