The provocateur returns to competition with this French-language drama, based on a true story about a 17th-century nun who was chastised for her religious visions and lesbian affairs. By Jordan ...

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 ...

Paul Verhoeven — the provocative filmmaker behind the cult classics “RoboCop” (1987), “Total Recall” (1990), “Basic Instinct” (1992) and “Showgirls” (1995) — is no stranger to controversy. But the ...

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Paul Verhoeven, you horny motherfucker, you’ve done it again. Few filmmakers have made a name for themselves violently confronting the nigh-puritanical state of modern cinema the way Verhoeven has.

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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 ...

Described by film critics as a 'sexy, satirical and spiritual' and a 'lesbian nun thriller', Benedetta certainly has people talking. The film, directed by provocative film maker Paul Verhoeven, tells ...

Paul Verhoeven has long loved viciously ambitious blondes – from Renée Soutendijk's saucy hot dog vendor in 1980's Spetters, the final film he made in his native Netherlands, to the masterfully ...

The first trailer for Paul Verhoeven's Benedetta has been released. The new movie from the director of Robocop and Showgirls will premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in July. Benedetta is adapted ...

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 ...