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Léon Morin, Priest
Directed by
Jean-Pierre Melville
Not Rated
1961
1h 58m
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7.5
96%
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Set during occupied France, a faithless woman finds herself falling in love with a young priest.
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Cast of Léon Morin, Priest
Emmanuelle Riva
Barny
Jean-Paul Belmondo
Léon Morin
Irène Tunc
Christine Sangredin
Nicole Mirel
Sabine Levy
Gisèle Grimm
Lucienne
Marco Behar
Edelman
Marc Eyraud
Anton
Monique Hennessy
Arlette
Edith Loria
Danielle Holdenberg
Monique Bertho
Marion
Nina Grégoire
Simone Vannier
Secretary
Lucienne Marchand
Secretary
Nelly Pitorre
Secretary
Ernest Varial
Director
Chantal Gozzi
Young France
Patricia Gozzi
Old France
Marielle Gozzi
Adult France
Cédric Grant
American Soldier
George Lambert
American Soldier
Gérard Buhr
Gunther
Howard Vernon
Colonel
Renée Liques
Volker Schlöndorff
German Soldier (uncredited)
Claude Achard
(uncredited)
Adeline Aucoc
Old Lady (uncredited)
Maurice Auzel
Man in St Bernard Church (uncredited)
André Badin
(uncredited)
Madeleine Ganne
Betty (uncredited)
Louis Saintève
Man (uncredited)
Jean-Pierre Melville
Director / Writer
Carlo Ponti
Producer
Georges de Beauregard
Producer
Léon Morin, Priest Ratings & Reviews
Seattle Film Blog
Kathy Fennessy
This is a beautiful, heartbreaking film.
Film Comment Magazine
Michael Sragow
It's Riva's emotional vitality that powers the story, suffuses it with an oscillating vibrancy, and inspires Melville's most inventive, fluid moviemaking.
Film Journal International
Eric Monder
Jean-Pierre Melville's quietly affecting film-and Emmanuelle Riva's performance-deserve rediscovery.
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
Melville films the religious dialectics with remarkable but dispassionate skill, and he uses the story of Barny and Morin to skew the postwar political context ...
Under the Radar
Austin Trunick
The film does suffer from several long, dry patches as it amounts to a whole lot of philosophical and spiritual tte--tte.
Scene-Stealers.com
Eric Melin
It's slow, thoughtful, thought-provoking, and full of rich characters and interesting discussion with a strangely sexual subtext.
Q Network Film Desk
James Kendrick
a thoughtful, moving evocation of spiritual life
Combustible Celluloid
Jeffrey M. Anderson
A peculiar combination of intellectual and instinctive, but it works beautifully.
Parallax View
Sean Axmaker
It's quite the chamber drama, a war movie set in intimate spaces and played out in theological debates and guarded discussions
CinePassion
Fernando F. Croce
Religion to Melville is purified cinematic expression and gesture
EDGE Boston
Phil Hall
A monotonous production.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
A fascinating, unexpected movie that fans of French film in general, and Melville in particular, will not want to miss
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
Melville's eye for exacting detail here is expected. What is remarkable is the depth of feeling he exacts from the juxtaposition of these ordinary moments with their extraordinary context.
New York Press
Armond White
This extraordinary drama doesn't just play games with sexual disorientation and philosophical argument; it's also implicitly about life turned upside down.
Village Voice
Scott Foundas
The result is a movie that moves with the diamond-cut precision and carefully constricting tension of Melville's trademark gangland sagas, the precious booty here being nothing less than the human soul.
Variety
Variety Staff
Tale [from Beatrix Beck's 1952 novel] of a young agnostic woman's conversion to Catholicism and her physical love for a priest during the Nazi occupation of France is handled with tact and talent.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Not an unqualified success, the film remains strong for its performances, its inventive editing and framing, and its evocative rendering of the French occupation.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
Melville's film is a spiritual and an intelligent one.
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