Performance - Colin MacCabe (BFI Film Classics) Fantasy Prêtre' Director: Jean-Pierre Melville (1961)

Prêtre' Director: Jean-Pierre Melville (1961) French w/ English subtitles

intense approach to the story of a young sickly priest assigned to a rural parish in Northern France whose residents have little appetite for spirituality

restored 1963 short by Menzel

Writer Patricia White takes the theme of return as her starting point in an exploration of Alfred Hitchcock's 'Rebecca' from 1940

Performance - Colin MacCabe (BFI Film Classics) Fantasy Prêtre' Director: Jean-Pierre Melville (1961)'Performance' by Colin MacCabe (BFI Film Classics Paperback) In his study of the film, Colin MacCabe draws on extensive interviews with surviving participants to present the definitive history of the making of Performance, as well as a new interpretation of its consummate artistry. This edition includes an afterword reflecting on the film 50 years on, and the reasons for its continuing classic status.