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’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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pathe International has unveiled the poster and trailer for Paul Verhoeven‘s subversive period thriller “Benedetta.” Cannes also confirmed that the film will world premiere at this year’s festival on ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The New York Film Festival premiere of Paul Verhoeven’s “Benedetta” was greeted by a small group of protesters on Sunday. The ...