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The programmers of the Calgary Underground Film Festival certainly know how to set a tone.

The opening film of its April 17 to 23 celebration of edgy cinema is The Little Hours, Jeff Baena’s all-star comedy and Sundance hit about less-than-holy medieval nuns tempted by a virile young handyman played by David Franco. Before long, as the synopsis helpfully describes, “the repressed nunnery erupts in a whirlwind of pansexual horniness, substance abuse and wicked revelry.”

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Which makes it an irreverently perfect pick for an Easter Monday screening.

“It’s a super raunchy provocative comedy,” says festival director Brenda Lieberman.”I don’t think anyone would be offended by it because it’s clearly a comedy. But we also don’t worry about that. ”

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The comedy, which also stars Legion’s Aubrey Plaza, Community’s Alison Brie, Fargo’s Nick Offerman, Portlandia’s Fred Armisen and SNL’s Molly Shannon will kick off a week of films at the Globe Cinema that reside in cinema’s dark underworld of hyphenated genre hybrids and general weirdness. Medieval-sex-romp is just the beginning.