Benedetta (2021)
- Directed by
- Paul Verhoeven
- Genre
- drama film, erotic film, psychological film, LGBTQ-related film
- Country
- France, Netherlands, Belgium
- Runtime
- 2h 07m
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 6.6 of 10 from 1,175 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A young woman enters a convent as a child and becomes a nun in 17th-century Italy. She has a sexual relationship with another nun and claims to receive visions from God.
erotictensesomberreligiousintimatepsychologically intenseperiodprovocative
What happens
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 film is loosely based on the 1985 non-fiction book Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy by Judith C. Brown. Its production included most of the key crew members from Verhoeven's previous film Elle (which also co-starred Efira), such as producer Saïd Ben Saïd, writer David Birke, composer Anne Dudley and editor Job ter Burg. The film premiered in competition for the Palme d'Or at the 74th Cannes Film Festival on 9 July 2021. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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