Tuesday, October 10, 2017

Leon Morin, Priest

This movie surprised me.  I've seen a few Jean-Paul Belmondo movies.  (He's most known for Breathless.)  He usually plays good-looking thugs.  In this, he plays a priest and he's sincere.  He's a better more rounded actor than I gave him credit for. Emmanuelle Riva, from Hiroshima Mon Amour, plays a woman who first comes to debate the priest but gradually comes to believe the faith, and falls for Belmondo too.  This was a pretty good movie.  Usually, I'm critical of The Criterion Collection saying they shouldn't have chosen this over this.  However, I'm glad this movie is in the collection.  It's not a very famous film but it works.

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