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Léon Morin, Priest

Kino Lorber  /  Year: 1961

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Synopsis

Jean-Paul Belmondo dons clerical robes and delivers a subtly sensual performance for the hot–under–the–collar Léon Morin, Priest, directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. The French superstar plays a devoted man of the cloth who is the crush object of 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 borderline heretic whose relationship with her confessor is 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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TLA Rating: 3 Stars

Rating: Not Rated

Cast:  Jean-Paul Belmondo, Emmanuelle Riva, Irène Tunc, Nicole Mirel, Gisèle Grimm, Marco Behar, Monique Bertho, Monique Hennessy, Gérard Buhr

Director:  Jean-Pierre Melville

Screenwriter:  Béatrix Beck, Jean-Pierre Melville

Cinematographer:  Henri Decaë

Composer/Score:  Martial Solal

Country:  France

Length: 1 hr 57 min

Year: 1961

A.K.A.: Léon Morin Prêtre

Studio :  Kino Lorber