Tuesday, September 5, 2017

I'll probably give that one a miss

Sounds too intense for me.
When William Friedkin shot “The Exorcist” in 1973, he had never seen an exorcism, though even at the time he believed in the power of this rite. Decades later, the U.S. director came full circle when he was able to film one close up — involving violent thrashing, foaming at the mouth and screaming — thanks to Father Gabriele Amorth, who performed exorcisms for the Vatican’s Rome Diocese. The result is documentary “The Devil and Father Amorth,” which screened at the Venice Film Festival.

4 comments:

rinardman said...

... involving violent thrashing, foaming at the mouth and screaming...

Wait, that sounds like he was filming the Dims reaction, the night Hilliary lost the election!

Paco said...

Yeah, that was a real Gadarene swine moment.

RebeccaH said...

Evidently Father Amorth isn't very good at it, since that was the ninth time he'd performed the exorcism on the same woman.

Deborah said...

That puts the good Father in the company of the likes of Edison and the Wright brothers.