Benedetta

Verhoehen never fails to entertain, and this was no exception. Film is based on a true story of a 17th-century nun. This might a tough pill to swallow for those truthful to the faith.

This is inspired by the life and fate of a 16th century nun who claimed to have mystic visions and had a lesbian love affair with one of the sisters at the convent. It's mostly fiction but it is still provocative and suspenseful enough to be entertaining. It's a challenge to religious beliefs as it shows self delusion and psychosis being accepted as faith.

Two hours of pure torture.Mixture of stigmata,plague, resurrection, sapphic love,torture chambers,and popular uprising.According to director Verhoeven, all this is based on historical facts,except the stake scene, which was borrowed from Joan of Arc.

If you are interested in the life of Benedetta Carlini, a Catholic nun of Italy, this film is not for you. Rather this monstrosity portrays the life of a fictional, sexually and socially deviant charlatan named Benedetta and her bent, heretical, twisted, kinky, divergent, warped life. The director, Paul Verhoeven, himself admitted that the film’s ending was stolen by him from the actual life of Joan of Arc. If Benedetta Carlini we’re alive today, she would easily win a case of defamation against the production companies.

De las mejores películas que tienen que ver con la iglesia y la lujuria....muy buena e interesante

Benedetta is a 2021 biographical psychological drama film co-written and directed by Paul Verhoeven 🐀 It's very good! 😀 I'd recommend it 👍🏼 A 17th-century nun becomes entangled in a forbidden lesbian affair with a novice. But it is Benedetta's shocking religious visions that threaten to shake the Church to its core.

A fascinating examination of the thin line between the sacred and the profane. Unsurprisingly Verhoeven is perhaps the only filmmaker who could have pulled this off.

Inspired by a true event, it is a rather unusual cross between religion and eroticism, with a pinch of scandal, just enough to provoke curiosity. From an unrecognizable Paul Verhoeven, the same one who directed Robocop.

Classic case of the filmmaker trying to be provocative and polemic involving religious images. Not everyone can be a transgressor so easily, at least not in these times

In his old age, atheist (though oddly fascinated by Jesus) boundary-pushing filmmaker Paul Verhoven makes a nunsploitation pic that is really -- boring. Perhaps viewers who have never considered how organized religion is fundamentally about power over others and fiercely-protected elitism will find this a fascinating exercise, but for those of us who have already figured this out there are no surprises here. The film goes from one nunsploitation trope to another, but without the fun naughtiness that makes this genre tick. Its beginning scenes have a nice early Renaissance look that could have made this a truly interesting visual experience, but it then quickly slips into looking like any other prettified historical drama. Even the nun's visions of Jesus are pedestrian -- a Ken Russell approach is really needed for such moments. What remains is predictable tedium.