Benedetta

France / Netherlands 2021,
Dir. Paul Verhoeven
Rating: [R18] violence, sexual violence, sex scenes & content that may disturb
Genres: Drama / LGBT, Lesbian, Sex

Topics: Period - 1700s, Religion.

Feat. Virginie Efira, Lambert Wilson, Olivier Rabourdin, Daphne Patakia, Clotilde Courau, Charlotte Rampling

“Verhoeven, as always, is more interested in playing games and is always at his best when needling an audience’s ideas of good taste.”~Rory O'Connor, The Film Stage

Aroview: Typically provocative yet playful psychodrama from Dutch director Paul Verhoeven, starring Virginie Efira as Benedetta Carlini, a novice nun in the 17th century who joins an Italian convent and has a lesbian love affair with another nun. Loosely based on the 1986 non-fiction book Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy, by Judith C. Brown.