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The Devils
Directed by
Ken Russell
R
1971
1h 52m
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In 17th-century France, Father Urbain Grandier's protection of the city of Loudun from the corrupt Cardinal Richelieu is undermined by a sexually repressed nun's accusation of witchcraft.
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Cast of The Devils
Vanessa Redgrave
Sister Jeanne des Anges
Oliver Reed
Father Urbain Grandier
Dudley Sutton
Baron de Laubardemont
Max Adrian
Ibert
Gemma Jones
Madeleine de Brou
Murray Melvin
Father-Canon Jean Mignon
Michael Gothard
Father Pierre Barre
Georgina Hale
Philippe Trincant
Brian Murphy
Adam
Christopher Logue
Cardinal Richelieu
Graham Armitage
King Louis XIII
John Woodvine
Louis Trincant
Andrew Faulds
Rangier
Kenneth Colley
Legrand
Judith Paris
Sister Agnes (miscredited as Sister Judith)
Catherine Willmer
Sister Catherine
Izabella Telezynska
Sister Iza
Niké Arrighi
Nun (uncredited)
Pat Ashton
Gossiping Woman (uncredited)
Peter Avella
Citizen (uncredited)
The Devils Ratings & Reviews
AV Club
Katie Rife
The truly provocative -- some might even say blasphemous -- part of the film is its assertion that, even while preaching their rhetoric of sin and salvation, nuns and priests and cardinals are only human, and humans are nothing but animals.
Nerdist
Kyle Anderson
It's scandalous in that it talks about things people generally aren't prepared for and it does so with the sharp edge of satire. After seeing the film, you'll know full well who, in Ken Russell's supposition, the real Devils are.
TIME Magazine
Jay Cocks
It is like a lunatic opera, an attempt to make a furious poem out of frenzy. Russell's flamboyant theatricality and his interest in the perverse have been too much imposed on his other films; but here, style and subject are perfectly matched.
PopMatters
Bill Gibron
It's an experience which pulsates and perverts, especially in those glorious moments when Russell slaps the sacred directly in its frescoed face... In this brilliant film, nothing is safe: not God, not Satan, not man, not their collective meaning.
IONCINEMA.com
Nicholas Bell
Weird, disarmingly funny, and stuffed to the gills with inspired visuals and intense framing from [director of photograph] David Watkin, The Devils is a masterpiece.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
All the events and persons depicted in The Devils are intended to be confused with actual events and persons. How do I know? Ken Russell tells me so.
Reeling Reviews
Laura Clifford
Bruegel couldn't have captured the insanity better.
TV Guide
TV Guide Staff
The set design, by future director Derek Jarman, is probably the most successful element of the film.
ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Donald J. Levit
Never letting up its energy, 'The Devils' is eye-ride.
Variety
Variety Staff
Reed carries the film with an admirably restrained portrayal of the doomed priest. Redgrave, on screen only sporadically, is stunning as the salacious sister.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
Ken Russell at his excessively visual best and dramatic worst.
ColeSmithey.com
Cole Smithey
Twisted genius.
New York Times
Vincent Canby
It's a see-through movie composed of a lot of clanking, silly, melodramatic effects that, like rib-tickling, exhaust you without providing particular pleasure, to say nothing of enlightenment.
Cleveland Press
Tony Mastroianni
Of substance Devils has little, of matter it has much and most of it is lurid for the sake of being lurid.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Ken Hanke
Quite frankly one of the greatest films ever made. Period. No qualifiers are necessary.
Chicago Reader
Dave Kehr
It's like a David Lean remake of Pink Flamingos.
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