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The Devils in Calgary, Canada

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Iain Fisher:
The Globe Cinema in  Calgary present Ken Russell’s The Devils on 3- 12 April 2026.

“The most controversial film of the 1970s was banned across the world for its deliriously overheated, shockingly blasphemous tale of sexual frenzy and demonic possession in a seventeenth-century French convent.  Based on Aldous Huxley’s novel The Devils of Loudun and John Whiting’s play The Devils, Ken Russell’s X-rated spectacle of the depraved stars Vanessa Redgrave as a hunchbacked nun whose lust for priest Father Grandier (Oliver Reed) sets off a perverse witch hunt and unleashes an orgy of sadomasochistic sacrilege”.

I'm not sure about the cinema's description -deliriously overheated, spectacle of the depraved etc, but the film is good.

For the cinema website click here
https://globecinema.ca/
For more on The Devils click here
https://iainfisher.com/russell/ken-russell-film-the-devils.html

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