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Joan of the Angels? The question mark is a salve to any who might be offended by this excellent Polish film about demons of eroticism loose in an Ursuline convent...
...educated in a convent in Liverpool, where her father is a grocer. Before she was cast by Richardson, her entire experience consisted of the role of a frog in a school play, the rear end of a horse in pantomime, and walk-on bits as an apprentice with the Liverpool Repertory Theater, whose alumni include Sir Michael Redgrave and Rex Harrison...
Joan of the Angels? The question mark is a salve to any who might be offended by this excellent Polish film about demons of eroticism loose in an Ursuline convent...
...another priest (Mieczyslaw Voit), a good, humble, godly man, has come to exorcise the demons in Mother Joan. Soon, in the convent attic where the sisters' white habits are hung to dry, she smiles at Father Joseph and whispers: "What if the devil left me and entered you?" Cut. A flight of birds appears, whirling and wheeling, uncertain of direction but moving with frenzy. Cut. Back in the attic, Father Joseph is crying...
...bizarre theme as a metaphor to probe toward the vague but universal demons that can rise in any man and drive him insane. Listening to all the mad nuns singing their beautiful liturgies in clear and healthy young voices, a villager suggests: "Perhaps there are no devils in the convent after all"-just women...