Don't Deliver Us from Evil

Don't Deliver Us from Evil

A film that goes where no other has dared.

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Release Date

4/5/1971

Runtime

102 mins

Overview

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.

Status

Released

Original Language

French

Budget

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Revenue

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A provocative descent into adolescent transgression set within the suffocating confines of a convent, where two girls' pact to embrace darkness grows increasingly disturbing and inescapable.

Mood

UnsettlingDread-soakedDefiantClaustrophobic

Themes

CorruptionFaithComing of ageObsession

Tone

Bleak

Pacing

Slow-burn

Look

NaturalisticDesaturated

Structure

Linear

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Sexual contentChild endangerment

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