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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

Though mostly marketed as “the lesbian nun movie,” Paul Verhoeven’s Benedetta is more than just an erotic thriller. SBS Productions Benedetta is inspired by the 1987 non-fiction book Immodest Acts: ...

74th Festival de Cannes 2021 What she is holding in her hand is a figure of the Virgin Mary. What else would it be? © Guy Ferrandis / SBS Productions Italy in the ...

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EXCLUSIVE: Actress Daphne Patakia has inked with Artist International Group for management. She’ll be represented at AIG by partner Chris Prapha and founder David Unger. Patakia most recently starred ...

Paul Verhoeven at the 'Benedetta' press conference during the 74th annual Cannes Film Festival on July 10, 2021. CREDIT: Pool/Getty Image Director Paul Verhoeven railed against the “puritanism” of ...

The marketing wasn’t lying. Benedetta, the latest from legendary Dutch director Paul Verhoeven, really is an epic sass-fest in which obscenely attractive nuns play power games against each other for ...