Maybe, maybe not. I’d like to attend but we’ll see.
I’ve seen incomplete versions of KenRussell‘s The Devils many times. It’s one of the most scalding portraits of religious bigotry and sadistic governmental cruelty ever created, and it’s quite the vicious masterwork, quite the meal.
Lo and behold, the allegedly complete, 114-minute, warts-and-all version will screen in Cannes next week.
I’ve sunk my heart and soul into this film time and again. I can recite portions of the dialogue in some scenes. I’ve seen a clip from the sex-crazed humping nuns scene, although I haven’t seen the scene in which Vanessa Redgrave’s wacko nun sexually pleasures herself with one of Oliver Reed’s burnt leg bones.
I’d naturally like to catch it in a grand final form, but the inclusion of these scenes won’t significantly change the overall. Plus Warner Bros.’s Clockwork will screen it theatrically in this country next October. Plus the Salle Bunuel is a fairly small theatre and everyone will want to get in…ooh!…ooh!…get there early!
