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 ...

‘Benedetta’ Review: A Guilty-Pleasure Nunsploitation Movie From the Director of ‘Basic Instinct’ Reviewed at Pathé screening room, July 2, 2021. (In Cannes Film Festival — Competition.) ...

‘Benedetta’ Film Review: Paul Verhoeven Delivers Beauty, Belief and Nun-on-Nun Sex. Ben Croll. Fri, July 9, 2021 at 7:47 PM UTC. 4 min read.

Benedetta Carlini (Virginie Efra), a nun in 17th century Italy, receives visions of Jesus Christ and eventually, through political machinations, becomes the abbess of her convent and usurps the ...

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.

Benedetta, his first film since 2016’s acclaimed thriller Elle, is perhaps the most openly provocative film of 2021, and maybe of Verhoeven’s filmography as well.

The New York Film Festival premiere of Paul Verhoeven’s “Benedetta” was greeted by a small group of protesters on Sunday. The biographical drama, starring Virginie Efira, tells the story of ...

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 ...