Leon Morin Pretre
(Leon Morin, Priest)
117 minutes,
France (1961),
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(5 / 4 votes)
(5 / 4 votes)
French director Jean-Pierre Melville's film is an extraordinary departure - a conversation between a radical young priest and an atheist widow that explores faith and love against a backdrop of Occupied provincial France
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Leon Morin Pretre: Jean-Pierre Melville, director of such cult classics as Bob Le Flambeur (1955) and Le Samourai (1967), is the master of hard-boiled thrillers, mixing an admiration for American noir and gangster lore with a distinctively stark and stylish aesthetic. In this context, Leon Morin Pretre - essentially an extended conversation about faith - is a startling departure from form...
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