Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some see the whole world in a grain of sand; Paul Verhoeven, with typical abundance, expands that old dictum, swapping a measly ...

Beneath the explicit sex and violence of the latest film from Dutch provocateur Paul Verhoeven are thoughtful challenges about gender roles and institutional religion. As a child, Benedetta is praised ...

At an early age, the unusually gifted Benedetta is given by her wealthy parents to a convent. But unlike places of worship so often depicted in film, the nunnery is hardly a refuge, but rather a place ...

The ecstatic agonies (or is it the agonizing ecstasies?) that have become the signature of legendary Dutch filmmaker Paul Verhoeven are on full display in his historical religious epic, “Benedetta,” a ...

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 ...

Not Rated. In French with subtitles. At the Landmark Kendall Square. Grade: B Dutch provocateur Paul Verhoeven, the auteur of “Basic Instinct” and “Showgirls” among others, takes on the true story of ...

The Dutch filmmaker explains what his new movie, based on a real 17th-century sister, has in common with “Showgirls” and “Basic Instinct.” By Elisabeth Vincentelli “I refuse to be afraid of ...

This review of “Benedetta” first published on July 9, following its screening at Cannes 2021. Some see the whole world in a grain of sand; Paul Verhoeven, with typical abundance, expands that old ...