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Put Your Devil Into My Hell

Name: Put Your Devil Into My Hell
Director: Bitto Albertini
Released: 1973
Duration: 85 min

Representation Score

4.1/10

Fair

1973

Director

Bitto Albertini

Runtime

85 minutes

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New Showbiz Analysis

Bitto Albertini’s comedy subverts the medieval social and legal order by prioritizing individual desires and unconventional emotional bonds over rigid moralism. The film gains narrative interest by using a pilgrim saint to disrupt conventional social expectations, providing a comedic yet unique departure from traditional romantic and spiritual clichés. However, the film lacks modern breadth in terms of race, ethnicity, and disability, remaining confined to a localized European context and traditional gender dynamics.

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Category Breakdown

Does Put Your Devil Into My Hell have LGBTQ+ representation?

Fair

The film features a pilgrim saint who is in love with the male protagonist, creating an emotional bond that challenges traditional romantic expectations. This bond serves as a mechanism for salvation.

How does Put Your Devil Into My Hell portray gender?

Fair

Gender dynamics revolve around infidelity and scandal. The mayor's wife drives the plot through her clandestine affair, but her actions are framed more by the scandal than a subversion of traditional gender roles.

How racially and ethnically diverse is Put Your Devil Into My Hell?

Limited

The film reflects the historical and geographic context of a 1973 Italian production set in the fourteenth century. The narrative centers on a localized European social structure, lacking diverse racial and ethnic representation.

How does Put Your Devil Into My Hell represent religion and culture?

Good

The story critiques institutional authority by focusing on a protagonist who defies civic and religious laws. Themes of moral relativism challenge the rigid moralism of the time.

Does Put Your Devil Into My Hell include disability representation?

Minimal

There is no evidence of the portrayal of physical or neurodivergent disabilities within the narrative.

Present on Screen

The narrative challenges traditional romantic expectations through a male-centric emotional bond between the protagonist and a pilgrim saint.
The film critiques institutional authority and the oppressive nature of traditional legal systems.

Limited or Absent

The film lacks racial and ethnic diversity, remaining confined to a localized European historical context.
Gender dynamics are primarily driven by scandal, with female characters serving as catalysts for scandal rather than subverting patriarchal structures.

Official Synopsis

Ricciardetto is a fourteenth-century playboy who wants at all costs to sleep with the wife of the mayor of Montelupone. He succeeds, but is caught between the covers with the woman and sentenced to death. He will be saved by a kind of pilgrim saint who is in love with him.

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