
Léon Morin, Priest
Synopsis
The widow Barny lives in Nazi-occupied France, looking after her daughter in a small village. When the Germans arrive, she decides to baptize her and chooses priest Léon Morin to do so. After spending some time with him and converting to Catholicism, she starts feeling an unrequited desire for Léon.
Editorial
The provinces prove to be a ripe setting for emotions seething under their cool surface in Jean-Pierre Melville’s provocative tale of religion—filled with sexual tension and repression. With Emmanuelle Riva, and Jean-Paul Belmondo as a handsome priest during WWII who all the women are besotted with!
