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Oct. 13, 171 Vg? 91 fhe Citizen The Devils bizarre film hut fascinating btewSrdesses STEREOVISION STARTS Tnwinppnwi I VIIIVIllsWII Main Elgin THE DEVILS A Warner Brothers release. Produced by Robert II. Solo and Ken Russell Directed and written by Ken Russell, based on the play by John Whiting and the book by Aldous Huxley. Starring Vanessa Redgrave and Oliver Reei cinema but it has, nevertheless, great vitality, an individual and often intriguing dramatic style, and a wealth of pictorial values.

It is a subject matter and, more particularly, the way Mr. Russell has interpreted it that are most likely to give offense. The story, based on historical fact, concerns a dashing libertine lay priest back in 1634 in Loudon, France, who. largely on the hysterical testimony of a sexually- repressed hunchbacked Ur-sulme Mother Superior that she has been a victim of his lust, was convicted of heresy and burnt at the stake. That Father Grandier was more the innocent pawn in a crafty political manoeuvre executed by Cardinal Richelieu (who wanted to minimize the power of feudal towns) than a man in league with the devil is the theory favored by Huxley and several other writers.

Mr. Russell's film is mainly concerned as much as it is concerned with anything more than a harrowing de- By Gordon Stoneham Call Ken Russell's approach to movie-making what you will bixarre, perverse, outrageous or obscene at least no one can accuse him of being dull. His latest film. The Devils (which he directed, wrote and co-produced) taken in about equal parts from both John Whiting's play of the same name and Aldous Huxley's book The Devils of Loudon, is in many ways a most disagreeable piece of J- Reed and Vanessa Redgrave both have a number of effective moments as they fluctuate between the sacred and profane sides of the characters. Even with a lurching walk and carefully contrived deformity, however, Miss Redgrave is rather too attractive to be completely convincing as she writhes in her sexual agonies, and Mr.

Reed is possibly a mite too flippant in his lechery. Dudley Sutton is appropriately villainous as the decadent aristocrat who, acting for Richelieu, is responsible for bringing Grandier to his gory end, and Michael Gothard, Gemma Jones and Murray Melvin are apt in other roles. But performers are really secondary in Ken Russell's overall scheme of things. They are used mainly as props to move around a grotesque film landscape, and if one can stomach the deliberate shock tactics, The Devils, as such, is not without its fascinations. THE UNPUBUSHABLE NOVEL IS NOWMIERICA'S MOST CONTROVERSIAL FILM! EASTMANCOLOR WIT CHRISTINA HART MICHAEL GARRETT i Stonehara Grand Guignol aspects of the affair, the basic narrative is never firmly in focus, and the complexities of the whole business are never fully explored.

But the story is certainly in a vivid enough fashion, in a avivid enough fashion. From the provocative production design, with some interesting, almost abstract settings, to the graphically mounted scenes of convent orgies, crude exorcism rites, torture sessions, primitive medical practices, and lewd court entertainments, the eye is constantly engaged even if the emotions are not. Effective use Sometimes the staging borders on the ludicrous, as do some of the anachronisms in the dialogue and costuming. But even Mr. Russell's excesses, while generally without a backing of any real substance, are not without a certain potency.

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Tory Science Building at 8.30 p.m. Bus service to campus: 1-A (Bank Carlton University) Parking In the oarage EXCITING? YOU "THE SECRETS OF i wt 1 ys Unique end Often Stunning Spectacle! As a Glimpse of Hell, piction of sadistic horrors with Grandier's rediscovery of faith during his final tortured ordeal. But Russell sensationalizes the material to such an extent, and employs so many baroque effects, and concentrates so much on the Tommy Tweed dies on birthday TORONTO (CP) Tommy Tweed, actor and writer whose dramatizations of Sir John A. Macdonald brought Confederation's first minister to life for many Canadians, died Tuesday on his 64th birthday. One of his most popular parts was that of Old Daddy Johnson in W.

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