Léon Morin, Priest (1961) review

A widow (Emmanuelle Riva) who has lost her faith turns to a young priest (Jean-Paul Belmondo) for spiritual guidance, but starts to fall in love with him (and since he's a Catholic and she's not a little boy, it's not gonna happen). As if it's hard enough to try to accept Belmondo as a man of the cloth - he stands straight and looks sincere but it hardly works - it's even harder to accept Melville's interest in spiritual crises or Catholicism in general. Bresson and Bergman genuinely pondered and fought with notions of belief in a greater entity than man; Melville's merely going through the motions.