Reception
The film was banned in Ireland because it showed a priest having a relationship with a woman (even though, in the movie, the relationship takes place before the character becomes a priest).
The film was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.
I Confess was a favorite among French New Wave film makers, according to filmmaker/historian Peter Bogdanovich.
Film critic Father Peter Malone, MSC, has described I Confess as "the most Catholic film of Hitchcock's films."
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