Léon Morin, Priest (1961), starring Jean - Paul Belmondo (fresh from Breathless) as an unconventional, at times
radical young priest and Emmanuelle Riva (of Resnais» Hiroshima, Mon Amour) as an atheist attracted to his intelligence and his charms, is his second and most unusual.
Not exact matches
The film opens with occupation and ends with liberation but focuses on the hothouse atmosphere of intimacy and separation, of desire and denial, in the private meetings of Léon (Belmondo), the unconventional, at times
radical and undeniably handsome
young priest, and Barny (Riva), a
young widow (her communist husband was killed in the war) with a half - Jewish daughter and a strong attraction to Léon.