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Directed by Ken Russell | 112 minutes | 18+ | Opening Night |
7:00pm Thursday, 14 May | Balam Balam Place - Cinema 1 |
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The power of cinema compels you: fall to your knees and pray for mercy from the censors! Ken Russell's massively controversial Devils, uncut, like you've never seen it before
Banned and heavily cut since its release in 1971, Ken Russell’s religious shocker enjoys everlasting life in the hearts and minds of cult film fans. Vanessa Redgrave and Oliver Reed desecrate the screen as horny Sister Jeanne and Father Grandier, the strapping priest she accuses of witchcraft, in a feverish fantasy adaptated from real historical events in 17th century France (and Aldous Huxley's ensuing novel).
Astonishing sets from a young Derek Jarman take us to church, while scenes of pure nunsploitation hysteria saw the film suppressed, mangled and withdrawn from circulation upon initial release. On BUFF’s unholy opening night, however, nothing is sacred—father forgive us.
SIMILAR: The Wicker Man, Godard’s Hail Mary, Jodorowsky, Blue Velvet, Salo
"This may be the cinema's most damning indictment of humankind, and it is refreshed every time someone fails to see beyond the shame it depicts to its spine of dignity." - Tim Lucas, BFI
"The biggest recruiting poster the Catholic Church has had" Pauline Kael, The New Yorker
Country: United Kingdom
Year: 1971
Language: English, Latin