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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:
DVD
Disc:
DVD-9 (1 Disc)
Total: 1 Disc
Regions:
1 (DVD)
Aspect Ratio:
1.66:1
Audio Options:
French Dolby Digital Mono 1.0
Subtitles:
English
Supplements
Types of Supplements Included: Interview, Audio Commentary, Theatrical Trailer, Booklet
- 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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