CONFLICT OF INTEREST Roache lives a double life

Priest

WHO'S IN IT Linus Roache, Tom Wilkinson, Robert Carlyle

DIRECTED BY Antonia Bird

WHAT IT'S ABOUT A young English priest struggles with his love of God and his secret homosexual desires.

WHAT WE SAID THEN ''The movie, which was made for British television, is intense, full blooded, and, at times, archly funny -- a look at what faith has come to mean in a world where no one can agree anymore on the rules of righteous behavior. What McGovern and Bird suggest is that Greg is a better priest, with a fuller experience of humanity and faith, precisely because of his war with desire. He understands firsthand the spiritual torment that Catholicism is meant to redress.'' A- -- Owen Gleiberman