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Léon Morin, Priest

Cast

Jean-Paul Belmondo, Emmanuelle Riva, Irène Tunc, Marc Eyraud View All


Crew

Jean-Pierre Melville (Director), Jean-Pierre Melville (Writer) View All

Release: Sep. 21st, 1961
Runtime: 1 hour, 57 minutes
The widow Barny lives in Nazi-occupied France, looking after her half-Jewish daughter in a small village. When the Germans arrive, she decides to baptize her and chooses priest Léon Morin to do so. After spending some time with him, the relationship with her confessor turns into a confrontation with both God and her own repressed desire. 
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Jeff Costello
I was also impressed with how craftly Melville manipulated viewer's expectation on will Morin and Marny somehow end up together, by orchestrating an intense sexual tension between them, eventough the things in the end really do not go anywhere with that.


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