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Rialto Pictures
Directed by: Jean-Pierre Melville
Featuring: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Emmanuelle Riva, Irène Tunc, Nicole Mirel, Gisèle Grimm, Monique Hennessy
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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Format: Blu-ray
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1.66:1
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French 1.0 PCM Mono
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English
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A
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1 Disc |
BD-50
Supplements
- French television interview with director Jean-Pierre Melville and actor Jean-Paul Belmondo from 1961
- Selected-scene commentary by film scholar Ginette Vincendeau
- Original theatrical trailer
- A booklet featuring a new essay by critic and novelist Gary Indiana and excerpts from Melville on Melville
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