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Léon Morin, prêtre / Rialto Pictures ; Studio Canal ; Lux Compagnie Cinématographique de France ; Carlo Ponti, Georges de Beauregard présentent ; adaptation et réalisation de Jean-Pierre Melville.
LIBRA BLU RAY PN1997 .L466 2011 disc + booklet
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Criterion collection ; 572.
- Criterion collection ; 572
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Catholic Church--France--Clergy--Drama.
- Catholic Church.
- Priests--Psychology--Drama.
- Priests.
- Widows--France--Drama.
- Widows.
- Man-woman relationships--France--Drama.
- Man-woman relationships.
- France--History--German occupation, 1940-1945--Drama.
- France.
- Beck, Béatrix--Film adaptations.
- Beck, Béatrix.
- Clergy.
- Priests--Psychology.
- Genre:
- Feature films -- France.
- Feature films -- Italy.
- Foreign language films -- French.
- Motion pictures -- France.
- Drama
- Feature films
- Fiction films
- Film adaptations
- History
- Film adaptations.
- Motion pictures, French.
- Feature films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (28 pages : illustrations ; 16 cm).
- Edition:
- Blu-ray special ed.
- Other Title:
- Container title: Léon Morin, priest
- Place of Publication:
- [New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2011]
- Language Note:
- French dialogue with optional subtitles in English.
- System Details:
- Blu-ray disc, Region A; high-definition widescreen (1.66:1) presentation; Dolby Digital mono.
- Requires a Blu-ray player.
- Summary:
- In Nazi-occupied France, a devoted priest is desired by all the women of his village, but finds himself most drawn to a religious skeptic who turns their relationship into a confrontation with both God and her own repressed desire.
- Contents:
- Opening credits
- A distant war
- Sabine
- A hasty baptism
- Inadvertent absolution
- Citizen-priest, comrade-father
- The dot and the circle
- The French race
- Spiritual adviser
- Little France
- No hard feelings
- "I'm converted"
- Blinded by jealousy
- A country priest's maid
- Change in atmosphere
- A happy childhood
- A stimulating sermon
- As a wife?
- Just one time
- Like a dead branch
- Virgin territory
- Miracles for heretics
- Color bars.
- Participant:
- Jean-Paul Belmondo, Emanuelle Riva, Irène Tunc, Nicole Mirel, Gisèle Grimm, Marco Béhar, Monique Bertho, Marc Heyraud, Nina Gregoire, Monique Hennessy, Cédric Grant, George Lambert, Marielle Gozzi, Patricia Gozzi, Gérard Buhr, Howard Vernon.
- Credits:
- Director of photography, Henri Decaë ; editors, Jacqueline Meppiel, Nadine Marquand, Marie-Josèphe Yoyotte ; music, Martial Solal ; harmonica, Albert Raisner ; production design, Daniel Gueret, Robert Christides.
- Notes:
- Based on the novel by Béatrix Beck.
- Originally produced as a motion picture in 1961.
- Special features: New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack; French television interview with Jean-Pierre Melville and Jean-Paul Belmondo (1961) ; selected-scene commentary by Ginette Vincendeau ; deleted scenes ; original theatrical trailer ; essay by Gary Indiana and excerpts from Melville on Melville in booklet.
- Special features: Featurettes: Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean-Pierre Melville (5 min.) (1961); Selected-scene commentary by Ginette Vincendeau (35 min.); Deleted scenes (4 min.); Original theatrical trailer (3 min.); Booklet includes the essay "Life during wartime" by Gary Indiana and "Melville on 'Léon Morin, priest'" (1970), an interview excerpt from "Melville on Melville."
- ISBN:
- 9781604654554
- 1604654554
- OCLC:
- 744561920
- Publisher Number:
- 715515084611
- CC2037BD The Criterion Collection
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