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Don't Deliver Us from Evil

Mais ne nous délivrez pas du mal

France

1971

110 Min
Color
1.66:1
French
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DIR Joël Séria

EXEC Ken Legargeant, Romaine Legargeant

PROD Bernard Legargeant, Joël Séria

SCR Joël Séria

DP Marcel Combes

CAST Jeanne Goupil, Catherine Wagener, Bernard Dhéran, Gérard Darrieu, Marc Dudicourt

ED Philippe Gosselet

MUSIC Claude Germain, Dominique Ney

SOUND Philippe Gosselet

Cannes (Quinzaine des Réalisateurs)

Synopsis

Anne and Lore, neighbors and best friends, barely into their teens, board at a convent school where they have taken a vow to sin and to serve Satan. Anne keeps a secret diary, they read a salacious novel, they get a classmate in trouble, they spy on the nuns, they set aside their communion wafers; they make a pact of devotion. Summer vacation starts: Anne’s parents leave her alone with the servants for two months at the family château. She and Lore are free to make mischief. They are cruel as well and play games of seduction. As summer ends and fall term begins, things come to a head. —IMDb

Director

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Joël Séria

Joël Séria (1936) is a French filmmaker and writer. In the 1970s he was a cult director and left his signature on the successful children’s film Don’t Deliver Us From Evil (Mais non pas nous délivrez du mal, 1971). He later specialized in comedies and made such films like As The Moon (Comme la lune, 1977), The Two Crocodiles (Les deux crocodiles, 1987) and Marie, the Doll (Marie-poupée, 1976). In the 1980s and ’90s he worked mostly in television. Mumu (2010) is his cinematic return. —charmainecharmaine.blogspot.com 

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