Some people are sure to find it all rather offensive, and the movie’s prospects at the U.S. box office are about as dim as the candle-lit cells in Benedetta’s convent. Benedetta is fearlessly ...

And so it is with his long-awaited “Benedetta,” which premiered in July at the Cannes Film Festival two years later than initially expected. In this two-hour film, within these four walls ...

Director Paul Verhoeven’s lesbian nun drama pushes the envelope on sexuality, but proves fairly conventional in most other respects. Let’s begin with the wooden statue of the Virgin Mary that ...

Verhoeven poses many questions in Benedetta, and offers few answers. Like the Bible that the early Catholic church claimed its authority from but kept the common people from reading, the film ...

When you hear that the director of Showgirls made a movie about lesbian nuns, you might suspect Benedetta to be outlandishly raunchy and ferociously campy, reveling in the trashy tropes.

And so it is with his long-awaited “Benedetta,” which premiered on Friday at the Cannes Film Festival two years later than initially expected. In this two-hour film, within these four walls ...

For those of a certain vintage, you have to step back and wonder about how surreal it is that a movie like 'Benedetta' is getting screened in Ireland without a single peep from either IFCO or the ...

has always been a horny little altar boy at heart and never has that been more clear than in his new film, Benedetta, a tale of lesbian nuns, politicized Catholicism, and the Bubonic Plague set in ...

The first trailer for Paul Verhoeven's Benedetta has been released. The new movie from the director of Robocop and Showgirls will premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in July. Benedetta is adapted ...

(The film, playing in select theaters, will move to digital platforms on Dec. 21.) The historical event was the investigation, conducted by the Roman Catholic Church, of Sister Benedetta Carlini ...