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Film for Thought: The Devil and Father Amorth
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 6:30 PM
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Admission Senior - $11.00
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Years after he
changed the landscape of American filmmaking with 1973's THE EXORCIST,
director, co-writer and legendary storyteller William Friedkin moves from
fiction to fact with his new documentary, THE DEVIL AND FATHER AMORTH. What
began as a brief conversation between Friedkin and Father Gabrielle Amorth -
the head Exorcist for the Diocese of Rome for over 30 years - as two
professionals who knew of each other's work soon transformed into an once-in-a-
lifetime opportunity, as Amorth agreed Friedkin could film an exorcism
ceremony. It would be the ninth exorcism for a painfully afflicted woman,
Cristina (a pseudonym), who had already been under Father Amorth's care - and
it would be filmed by Friedkin alone, with no other crew allowed, no light
other than the natural light in the room and a small digital camera-and-mic
unit that could capture the ritual and its revelations. Combining the startling
and singular footage from Cristina's exorcism with interviews from priests and
psychologists, neurosurgeons and non-believers, Friedkin guides us on a journey
into the twilight world between the boundaries of what we know and what we
don't with a singular and startling guide in the form of the urbane, charming
and self-deprecatingly funny Father Amorth, a man who laughs in the face of the
Devil both figuratively and literally. Combining Friedkin's past memories and
present observations with archival footage and new interviews - as well as also
presenting what may be the only real exorcism ceremony captured on film - THE
DEVIL AND FATHER AMORTH is a startling and surprising story of the religion,
the ritual and the real-world victims involved in possession and exorcism.
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