Day: July 31, 2011

Blu-ray Review: Léon Morin, Priest

Aiming for a wider audience in 1961, the often overlooked director Jean-Pierre Melville (Les enfants terribles, Le samourai) adapted Beatrix Beck’s autobiographical novel The Passionate Heart. Set in a French village during World War II, Léon Morin, Priest is about a young woman falling in…

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Blu-ray Review: Overboard

A twist on the reliable storyline of the snob who learns how the other half lives; the character is stuck up, arrogant and spoiled. Eventually, something happens that brings them down to reality. By the end of the film, the hero has discovered humility, gratitude…

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