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 ...

The full lineup for this year’s Cannes Film Festival hasn’t yet been officially unveiled, but one of the few titles confirmed for the Croisette has already been snapped up, with Mubi acquiring Paul ...

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 ...

Ever the bad boy even into his 80s, director Paul Verhoeven stirs the pot and turns the heat up to the boiling point in Benedetta, a medieval brew of religious fervor, illicit lesbian sex in a convent ...

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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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 ...

"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 ...

As Film at Lincoln Center readies to mount its 59th edition of the New York Film Festival, the annual event seems hellbent on bringing the absolute best of the year’s new films to the city’s ...

"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 ...

At the Cannes Film Festival press conference for Paul Verhoeven’s competition title Benedetta this morning, director and cast fielded a series of questions about the film’s use of nudity and sex while ...