Leon Morin, Priest
Jul 23 - Jul 29, 2010
(Jean-Pierre Melville, France, 1961, 35mm, 117 min)
New 35mm Print!
Our Dual of The Cool champion Jean-Paul Belmondo returns in this new 35mm print of French director Jean-Pierre Melville’s Léon Morin, Priest. A midcareer masterpiece, only now receiving an American theatrical release, Melville accepted an offer to adapt Béatrix Beck's Prix Goncourt-winning novel Léon Morin, Prêtre, a book Melville considered "the most accurate picture of the French under the Occupation."
"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." —Village Voice
"Miraculous cinema, even for heretics." —Time Out
"A fascinating, unexpected movie that fans of French film in general, and Melville in particular, will not want to miss" —LA Times
"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." —NY Times
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