Fresh
A fascinating, unexpected movie that fans of French film in general, and Melville in particular, will not want to miss
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
Léon Morin, Priest
1961 · 2h 10m · NOT RATED
Drama, Romance
Directed by
Jean-Pierre Melville
Overview
In World War II, the widow Barny sees the Italian soldiers arriving in occupied Saint Bernard while walking to her job. Barny lives with her daughter and works correcting tests and feels a great attraction toward her boss Sabine. When the Germans arrive, Barny sends her half-Jewish daughter to live on a farm in the countryside and finds that Sabine's brother has been arrested and sent to a concentration camp. The atheist Barny decides to baptize her daughter to protect her and chooses priest Léon Morin to discuss with him themes related to religion and Catholicism and Léon lends books to her. Barny converts to Catholicism and becomes closer to Léon, feeling an unrequited desire for him.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
95%
Tomatometer
Fresh
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.
Manohla Dargis, New York Times
Fresh
It's a giddy bit of blasphemy to see Jean-Paul Belmondo dressed in priest's garb.
Keith Uhlich, Time Out New York
Fresh
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.
Scott Foundas, Village Voice
Fresh
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.
Variety Staff, Variety
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