movie poster for LEON MORIN, PRETRE

Flicks ID

11505

Cert

PG

Running time

115 mins

Country

Language

Format

DVD

LEON MORIN, PRETRE (1961)

JEAN-PIERRE MELVILLE

Plot

Barny is a young widow, she is also a militant communist and atheist who one day enters a church, and randomly picks a priest to taunt. Leon Morin is a Catholic priest: he is also young, handsome and unconventional in his religious approach. The two begin a platonic relationship, but soon Barny's admiration for Morin turns to desire and he becomes the object of her romantic obsession...