The Devils

Film Review: Ken Russell’s The Devils is a masterpiece of confrontational filmmaking that refuses to behave, apologise or make itself comfortable for its audience

Few films have courted controversy quite as enthusiastically as Ken Russell’s The Devils, and even fewer have emerged from decades of censorship feeling quite so alarmingly relevant. First released in 1971, Russell’s feverish examination of religious fanaticism, sexual repression and institutional corruption has long existed under the shadow of its own notoriety, with its most…

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