Seventeenth-century convents must be more to my taste than 12th-century ones, given that I enjoy Ken Russell’s The Devils (1971) so much more than I do Margarethe von Trotta’s slow-as-sludge and deadly dull Vision—Aus dem Leben der Hildegard von Bingen. And while I’m in the mood to compare nectarines and lemons, let me add that […]