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Jean-Paul Belmondo,
Emmanuelle Riva,
Irène Tunc,
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Jean-Pierre Melville
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: Criterion
: Drama, Romance, WWII, Criterion Collection
: 117 min.
: French
: English
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Jean-Paul Belmondo delivers a subtly sensual performance in the hot-under-the-collar Léon Morin, Priest (Léon Morin, prêtre), directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. The French superstar plays a devoted man of the cloth who is desired by all the women of a small village in Nazi-occupied France. He finds himself most drawn to a sexually frustrated widow - played by Emmanuelle Riva - a religious skeptic whose relationship with her confessor turns into a confrontation with both God and her own repressed desire. A triumph of mood, setting, and innuendo, Léon Morin, Priest is an irreverent pleasure from one of French cinema's towering virtuosos.
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by funnytoo
December 12, 2011 - 1:11 PM PST
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| yes, really!! His ugly visage is gorgeous enough to make me want to confess even to sins I have yet to commit. The film is a little light on the surrounding story line of WWII, but more than makes up for that with the beautiful women, stunningly photographed in black & white who really are the centerpiece of the film - is lusting after a priest really that bad? This 1961 film made me cringe a little at the end with the little girl & the Father innocently interacting, fast forward to todays milieu of child abuse revelations. |
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