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Leon Morin, Priest
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Format: Blu-ray
*Please note, this product has been imported from the US. All 4K UHD discs are Region Free and all Blu-ray discs are Region A locked.
Description
A 4K Restoration of the Original 128-Minute Director’s Cut! From Jean-Pierre Melville, the legendary director of Bob Le Flambeur, Le Deuxième Souffle, Army of Shadows and Un Flic. Screen legend Jean-Paul Belmondo (Le Doulos) dons clerical robes and delivers a subtly sensual performance as the hot-under-the-collar Léon Morin, a devoted man of the cloth who is the crush object of 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 (Hiroshima Mon Amour)—a borderline heretic whose relationship with her confessor is 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. Gloriously shot in black-and-white by Henri Decaë (The Sicilian Clan, Viva Maria!).
Special Features
- New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
- 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
- PLUS: A new essay by critic and novelist Gary Indiana and excerpts from Melville on Melville
Special Offer
Buy 2 or more titles and get 5% off using code: BUNDLE
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