In order to bring this history more fully into the present, the production hired Derek Jarman – years before he became the great avant-garde director – to design the sets of Loudun, the setting of Grandier’s home and trial. Instead of playing by strict rules of period detail, Jarman saw to fruition a modern architectural vision that conveyed a sense of Loudun as its inhabitants would arguably have experienced it: as a progressive city of the future modeled through populist self-governance and peace between Protestants and Catholics.

The Devils           
Ken Russell
1971