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The movie is based on the book Immodest Acts by historian Judith C. Brown, and centers on Benedetta, a 17th-century nun in Italy who experiences disturbing religious and erotic visions.
Benedetta is adapted from Judith C. Brown's non-fiction book Immodest Acts and focuses on the highly forbidden relationship between Benedetta and Bartolomea, two nuns in a 17th century Italian...
Benedetta is a 2021 biographical psychological drama film co-written and directed by Paul Verhoeven, starring Virginie Efira as Benedetta Carlini, a nun in the 17th century who joins an Italian convent while a young child and later has a lesbian love affair with another nun, while seeing religious visions.
The foreign-language movie — loosely adapted from the book “Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy” — stars Belgian actress Virginie Efira as Benedetta Carlini, an 1800s...
Inspired by Judith C. Brown’s biography Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy, Benedetta is exactly what you’d expect. Sister Benedetta Carlini (Virginie Efira) has baroque visions of Jesus, bleeds copiously from stigmata wounds, and succumbs to the wiles of a gorgeous neophyte named Bartolomea (Daphne Patakia) who ...
May 05 2021 12:10 PM EST. Holy lesbian nuns, this is a wild ride. The first trailer for Paul Verhoeven's newest film has dropped and it has everything: stigmata, Charlotte Rampling, self...
In the first five minutes of “Benedetta,” Paul Verhoeven’s winking biographical fiction about the life and transgressions of a 17th century Italian nun, a bird defecates on a man’s eyeball and...
