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Léon Morin, Priest (French: Léon Morin, prêtre) is a 1961 French drama film directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. It was adapted by Melville from Béatrix Beck's novel The Passionate Heart (French: Léon Morin, prêtre), which won the Prix Goncourt in 1952.
Léon Morin, Priest: Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. With Jean-Paul Belmondo, Emmanuelle Riva, Irène Tunc, Nicole Mirel. Set during occupied France, a faithless woman finds herself falling in love with a young priest.
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- Drama, Romance, War
- Jean-Pierre Melville
- 1961-09-22
Oct 21, 2009 · "Leon Morin, Priest" is a consistently intriguing film, because Melville so cleverly plays with our expectations. There is an undercurrent of sincere religiosity at work. Morin is a sincere priest who is prepared to accept a posting in a remote district where no one will be interested in his books.
Jul 26, 2011 · 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.
- Léon Morin
Leon Morin, Priest. As the Germans take over France during World War II, widowed mother Barny (Emmanuelle Riva) becomes increasingly anxious about her half-Jewish daughter.
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- Jean-Paul Belmondo
- Jean-Pierre Melville
- Drama
Jul 26, 2011 · Léon Morin, Priest is not the big, variegated canvas of the Resistance that Melville first imagined; that came later, in 1969, with Army of Shadows. It is an exquisitely circumscribed and powerful picture of how people cope in a world devoid of certainty.
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May 11, 2017 · “Léon Morin, Priest,” an erotically charged tale of occupied France by Jean-Pierre Melville, is revived in a new digital restoration.
