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 ...

Christmas is just around the corner and Paul Verhoeven has left a present for us during this hallowed season: A film with lesbian nuns, full-frontal nudity, tons of sex, Catholic hypocrisy and brutal ...

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 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 ...

At the ripe age of 83, Dutch boundary pusher Paul Verhoeven is still pushing boundaries, even if at this point they're only of good taste. The "RoboCop" and "Starship Troopers" filmmaker's first film ...

Not Rated. In French with subtitles. At the Landmark Kendall Square. Grade: B Dutch provocateur Paul Verhoeven, the auteur of “Basic Instinct” and “Showgirls” among others, takes on the true story of ...

Paul Verhoeven's "Benedetta" tells the story of the forbidden sexual relationship between two nuns. Catholic nun Sister Helena Burns told Insider she "wouldn't waste her time" watching the film.

Virginie Efira and Daphné Patakia discuss working alongside Paul Verhoeven, the feminist bona fides of their movie, and Virgin Mary dildos. Photo: IFC Films Though the movie is based on Judith C.

The Dutch filmmaker explains what his new movie, based on a real 17th-century sister, has in common with “Showgirls” and “Basic Instinct.” By Elisabeth Vincentelli “I refuse to be afraid of ...

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 ...

The arthouse is awash with well reviewed new offerings from Danish animated doc Flee to Paulo Sorrentino’s Hand of God to IFC’s Benedetta heading into awards season and amid a paucity of new wide ...