Post Description

Frankrijk / Italië
Drama
130 minuten

geregisseerd door Jean-Pierre Melville
met Jean-Paul Belmondo, Emmanuelle Riva en Irène Tunc

Leon Morin (Belmondo) is een priester die een gevallen vrouw weer op het rechte pad wil krijgen. Dit gaat natuurlijk gepaard met veel problemen ook omdat hij vreemde gevoelens voor het meisje krijgt.

spot info:

Studio: BFI Video

DVD Release Date: April 26, 2004 (out of print)


Director: Jean-Pierre Melville


Description
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Aiming successfully for a wider audience in 1961, the neglected French independent Jean-Pierre Melville (Les enfants terribles, Le samourai) adapted Beatrix Beck's autobiographical novel, set in a French village during World War II, about a young woman falling in love with a handsome, radical young priest who's fully aware of his power over her.

For the starring roles Melville, godfather of the New Wave, ironically selected two talented actors catapulted to fame by that movement--Hiroshima, mon amour's Emmanuele Riva and Breathless's Jean-Paul Belmondo.

The poetic results are literary and personal; the heroine's offscreen narration suggests the pre-Bressonian form of Melville's first feature, Le silence de la mer, and sudden subjective shots convey the woman's physical proximity to the priest as she undergoes an ambiguous religious conversion.

Not an unqualified success, the film remains strong for its performances, its inventive editing and framing, and its evocative rendering of the French occupation. The eclectic and resourceful nonjazz score is by jazz pianist Martial Solal. 


Format: PAL

DVD Size: 6.86 GB -- Exact Untouched Copy

Runtime (main feature): 113 minutes

Type: Black and White

Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1 OAR | Anamorphic Widescreen

Sound (main feature): French DD2.0

Subtitles: optional English



DISC FEATURES:

# Commentary by French film expert Prof. Ginette Vincendeau.
# 4:3 Trailer (3:03).
# Director's Biography (3:16).
# Interview with assistant director Volker Schlondorff (13:12).
# Introduction by Ginette Vincendeau (21:18).
# Acknowledgements.


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