Cinematheque: Jean-Paul Belmondo
Léon Morin, Priest / Léon Morin, prêtre (France, 1961, 35mm, 130 min., subtitled, Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, with Belmondo, Emmanuelle Riva, Irene Tunc)
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Date
Friday, July 8, 2011
Time
7 p.m.
Location
Cinematheque, room 4070, Vilas Hall
Description
Eight years before he made Army of Shadows, masterful director Melville made this more contemplative, erotically-charged drama also set during the German occupation of France. Belmondo stars as the title character, the young and handsome confessor to an atheist widow, who begins moving closer to God…or is it the priest? Thoughtful and deeply spiritual, Leon Morin is one of the most unjustly overlooked of French New Wave movies.
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