Paul Verhoeven’s Benedetta certainly pulls no punches. The film follows Benedetta Carlini (Virginie Efira) as a seventeenth century nun who from the age of nine was raised as a nun in a small town ...

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 ...

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 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 a 17th ...

"You still don't believe in me? After all you've seen?" IFC Films has debuted the full official US trailer for Paul Verhoeven's Benedetta, already infamously known as the "lesbian nuns" film. This ...

Joan of Arc meets Covid in Paul Verhoeven’s “Benedetta,” based on true events that occurred in Pescia, Tuscany, Italy during the 17th Century. If you’re familiar with Verhoeven you already know that ...

Dutch filmmaker Paul Verhoeven's latest film "Benedetta" debuted to a five-minute standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival in July. When the film opened in the United States, however, it was met ...

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"The ways of the Lord are often terrifying." Or sometimes tantalizing. IFC Films has revealed a sultry official US teaser trailer Paul Verhoeven's latest film Benedetta, already infamously known as ...

The ecstatic agonies (or is it the agonizing ecstasies?) that have become the signature of legendary Dutch filmmaker Paul Verhoeven are on full display in his historical religious epic, “Benedetta,” a ...

After a theatrical run, the Guillermo del Toro-produced Antlers, which stars Keri Russell and Jesse Plemons, is finally out this week on VOD. The film’s release was oft-delayed due to COVID, and we’re ...