LEON MORIN, PRIEST (THE CRITERION COLLECTION) [BLU-RAY] (VERSION FRANAISE) [IMPORT]

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• Release Year: 1961
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: 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.
• Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Emmanuelle Riva, Irène Tunc, Nicole Mirel, Gisèle Grimm, Marco Behar, Monique Bertho, Marc Eyraud, Nina Grégoire, Monique Hennessy, Edith Loria, Simone Vannier, Lucienne Marchand, Nelly Pitorre, Ernest Varial, Chantal Gozzi, Cédric Grant, George Lambert, Marielle Gozzi, Patricia Gozzi, Gérard Buhr, Howard Vernon, Claude Achard, Adeline Aucoc, Maurice Auzel, André Badin, Madeleine Ganne, Louis Saintève, Volker Schlöndorff, Jean-Pierre Melville, Béatrix Beck, Georges de Beauregard, Carlo Ponti, Henri Decaë, Jacqueline Meppiel, Martial Solal
• Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
• Runtime: 1:57
• Company: StudioCanal, Concordia Compagnia Cinematografica, Rialto Pictures, The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie