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Léon Morin, Priest / Leon Morin, prêtre (PG) + live Q&A with François Giraud
Screen Horizons
Sun 10 Apr 2022 @ 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
£6 – £8
Unreserved seating. Content: Contains mild sex references. Language: French with English subtitles
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The screening on Sunday 10 April (17:30) will be accompanied by an introduction and live Q&A with François Giraud, Teaching Fellow in French & film scholar at the University of Edinburgh.
In 1961, one year after he appeared in Breathless (1960) and two years after she appeared in Hiroshima, Mon Amour, Jean-Paul Belmondo and Emmanuelle Riva made Léon Morin, Priest. They were both in the heat of their early careers. The director Jean-Pierre Melville (renowned for his gangster tales), opted for a story at the intersection of desire, religion and politics. Belmondo plays a devoted man of the cloth who is desired by all the women of a small village in Nazi-occupied France.
"Casting the boyish Belmondo as a priest with a missionary bent is one of the intriguing ambiguities of this film"Pacific Film Archive