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Les Visiteurs du Soir: The Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: A Medieval Tale of Love and Fate
In late 1942, when the surreal French fantasy Les Visiteurs du Soir was first released in good ol’ gai Paris, the capital City of Lights was anything but happy. In fact, it was occupied by those ol’ no-good Nazis — and the prospect of freedom was but a farfetched dream for some. Thus, the very premise of the film — wherein two of the Devil’s emissaries are sent to an otherwise happy castle in 1485 to bring about despair to all — was something of a believable concept to those who were forcefully living within the Hellish confines of Hitler’s conquered empire. Of course, even the disciples of the Devil had more scruples than the militia of a madman. [Read the rest at Cinema Sentries.]
