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The Devils review – Ken Russell’s 1971 possessed-nuns tale is a frenzied aria of confrontation and hysteria

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Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave put in the performances of their lives in this film originally banned for obscenity that highlights the violence of power ‘I could never be Satan’s boy. I haven’t the humility.” The speaker is Father Urbain Grandier, the…

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