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Paths of Glory
1957
Synopsis
WWI, northern France. Ordered to stage an impossible attack on German territory, a French battalion decides to abandon the offensive midway through. When three of its soldiers are court-martialed for cowardice, the unit’s commanding officer takes a stand in their defence.
Editorial
With a moral authority as commanding as his technical precision, the young Stanley Kubrick delivers a devastating anti-war polemic with this early WWI-set masterwork. The film’s relentlessly staged tracking shots through no-man’s-land pandemonium rank among the director’s most visceral set pieces.
