Saturday, July 13, 2024

The Priest and the Girl

Who's That Lay-Person?


Sexy tempting priests abound in the Catholic nation-states. O padre e a moça [The Priest and the Girl, 1965] approaches its curate from an angle different than that in, say, Melville's Léon Morin, Priest [1961]— An angle different in the jawbone, compared to Jean-Paul Belmondo.

The presumably late-teenage girl draws men toward her, and/or is naturally attracted to these men: a senior priest; a senior parental-guardian; a young villager who resembles a fully-coiffed Dave Attell; a younger priest with dashing looks. The landscapes and frock-silhouettes might remind one of Pasolini’s contemporaneous films: Franco Citti in a frock. The two-shots and intimate close-ups at times emit all the power of Bergman.



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