Cult classic The Devils releases in Irish cinemas 55 years after being banned
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‘The Devils’ Gets Its Due
Aldous Huxley likened the exorcism of the prioress Jeanne des Anges to “a rape in a public lavatory.” It was this horrific description that director Ken Russell shared with production designer Derek Jarman before they set out to tell that story. Russell wanted to capture the spirit of Huxley’s nonfiction book, The Devils of Loudun, about the 17th century-incident in which a convent of nuns claimed possession, exhibiting wild and lewd behavior, l…
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Cult classic The Devils releases in Irish cinemas 55 years after being banned
Ken Russell’s The Devils is a historically informed dramatisation of the fall of Urbain Grandier, a local Catholic priest in the French region of Loudun who was punished for allegedly summoning evil spirits to possess a convent of nuns. Hunchback nun Sister Jeanne lusts after Grandier, and when he refuses her advances, she accuses him…
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