Blu-ray, DVD Release: Léon Morin, Priest

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Laurence
– July 3, 2019Find Others: Blu-ray, DVD, Movie, New Release, News

Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: July 2, 2019
Price: DVD $13.29, Blu-ray $19.99
Studio: Kino Lorber

One of a pair of Kino Lorber’s Jean-Pierre Melville 4K restorations this month is the original 128-Minute director’s cut of the great French filmmaker’s 1961 drama Léon Morin, Priest.

Screen legend Jean-Paul Belmondo (Breathless) dons clerical robes and delivers a subtly sensual performance as the hot-under-the-collar Léon Morin, a devoted man of the cloth who is the crush object of all the women of a small village in Nazi-occupied France. He finds himself most drawn to a sexually frustrated widow—played by Emmanuelle Riva (Hiroshima Mon Amour)—a borderline heretic whose relationship with her confessor is a confrontation with both God and her own repressed desire.

Regarded as a triumph of mood, setting, and innuendo, Léon Morin, Priest is an irreverent pleasure from one of French cinema’s towering virtuosos. A different animal than his crime thriller, Melville’s film is gloriously shot in black-and-white by the great Henri Decaë (Le silence de la mer).

 

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Founder and editor Laurence Lerman saw Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest when he was 13 years old and that’s all it took. He has been writing about film and video for more than a quarter of a century for magazines, anthologies, websites and most recently, Video Business magazine, where he served as the Reviews Editor for 15 years.