Summary

Ken Russell ‘s “The Devils” begins with a title card that stresses that what we’re about to see is based on real, historical events — namely, that a priest named Urbain Grandier was blamed and burned at the stake as the culprit for the possession of a group of Ursuline nuns in the French town of Loudun in the 1630s. But the 1971 film looks unlike most movies made about Early Modern Europe (or indeed any part of the pre-modern world) before or since.

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