But two of his masterpieces in other genres are: L'armée des ombres, a gripping account of the French resistance with Lino Ventura and Simone Signoret in particularly fine form, and Léon Morin, prêtre, another wartime drama, which pits a communist atheist, in full spiritual crisis, magnificently played by Emmanuelle Riva, against Belmondo, unusually cast as a totally
engaged young priest.
Not exact matches
They included Catholic and Protestant bishops, church officials and seminary professors, nuns and
priests, Muslims and Buddhists,
young workers and persons
engaged in alternative ministries.
This is not to denigrate the many excellent teachers, parents,
priests and youth workers involved in
young people's lives; we are merely recognising a fact of the cultural battle in which we are
engaged.
It is a shot of a
priest (Liam Cunningham) and prisoner, in silhouette,
engaged in dialectic that starts off with common bullshit and bravado (the
priest swearing up a storm), then turns to the brute beliefs each owns about the British - Irish conflict, the morality of suicide, and the prisoner's leading of an impending hunger strike, then the prisoner's telling of an anecdote of youthful violence he perpetrated — how he euthanized a
young foal with a broken leg when none of his friends would do it.