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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Why this pick
Like Paths of Glory, it turns military hierarchy into a ruthless moral battleground, using stark, pressure-cooker confinement and mounting institutional cruelty rather than battlefield spectacle.
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Why this pick
A precise, angry wartime courtroom drama about soldiers made expendable by their superiors; its controlled tension and focus on justice echo Kubrick’s anti-authoritarian force.
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Why this pick
This austere First World War court-martial drama shares the same devastating collision between shell-shocked humanity and an army determined to preserve discipline.
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Why this pick
Its restrained postwar grief and lucid black-and-white imagery offer a similarly unsentimental view of war, centered on the moral cost borne by ordinary soldiers.
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Why this pick
Beginning with youthful camaraderie before tightening into tragic inevitability, it shares Paths of Glory’s fury at distant commanders treating lives as tactical abstractions.
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01 / THE STORY
A unit commander in the French army must deal with the mutiny of his men and a glory-seeking general after part of his force falls back under fire in an impossible attack in 1916 during World War I.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Col. Dax
Cpl. Philippe Paris
Gen. George Broulard
Gen. Paul Mireau
Pvt. Pierre Arnaud
Pvt. Maurice Ferol
Narrator of Opening Sequence
Father Dupree
