Ultimately, this is Riva's picture, with her astonishing emotional transparency giving heft to perhaps the closest Melville came to making a "women's picture," one infused with a sensitive feminine perspective mostly foreign from his stoic crime pictures. But Léon Morin, Priest even points the way for later films like Le Samourai, Le Cercle Rouge and, supremely, Army of Shadows.
Kenji Fujishima
agosto 19, 2015