Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Let’s begin with the wooden statue of the Virgin Mary that is young Benedetta’s most prized possession when she enters the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some see the whole world in a grain of sand; Paul Verhoeven, with typical abundance, expands that old dictum, swapping a measly ...

If the movie gods were to choose any filmmaker alive to adapt Judith C. Brown’s 1986 book Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy, Paul Verhoeven probably would have eagerly ...

The flesh is weak but the third act is even weaker in Paul Verhoeven's transgressive but frustratingly self-conflicted period piece. You probably won’t be shocked to hear that Paul Verhoeven’s erotic ...

Benedetta was reviewed out of the New York Film Festival, where it made its North American premiere. It will debut in theaters on Dec. 3. As a child, young Benedetta has a unique relationship to the ...

Inspired by true events and set in the 17th century, Belgian actress Virginie Efira portrays the title character, a nun named Benedetta Carlini. Elena Plonka plays her as a young girl who is sold to a ...

Paul Verhoeven, you horny motherfucker, you’ve done it again. Few filmmakers have made a name for themselves violently confronting the nigh-puritanical state of modern cinema the way Verhoeven has.

Does Paul Verhoeven’s “Benedetta” amount to nunsploitation or nonsploitation? Is this latest feature by the now-octogenarian filmmaker who gave us “RoboCop,” “Total Recall,” “Basic Instinct” and ...

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 is young ...

This review of "Benedetta" first published on July 9, following its screening at Cannes 2021. Some see the whole world in a grain of sand; Paul Verhoeven, with typical abundance, expands that old ...

This review of “Benedetta” first published on July 9, following its screening at Cannes 2021. Some see the whole world in a grain of sand; Paul Verhoeven, with typical abundance, expands that old ...