Benedetta

Look beyond the steamy scenes. They make for great marketing but this is a superb movie with an honest, if tongue-in-cheek, look at faith. It's been ages since a movie made me feel so much, so many. The power-play, the dialogues, the B-series look that prevents it from veering too much to pretentiousness, and a heartfelt take at what the price of subverting the rules is. Epic, absurd, unfathomable.

A truly hilarious film that tackles the hypocrisy of the Church, politics, and medieval history in an interesting way. Cheers to Jesus and the power of lesbians.

The power of lesbians really saved that town huh.

Paul Verhoeven out of control, dedicated to the sexualization of religious devotion, but also to the exposure of ecclesiastical corruption. There is no heaven in this story, only a hell that is represented in the daydreams of a Jesus who saves by cutting off heads. "Suffering is the only way to know Christ." Burns the stake of damnation and oozes the pus of the black plague. "Your worst enemy is your body".

Totally not so controversial after all. Just a very solid movie. The magnificent Virginie Efira deserves more praise! :flag_be:

Let me summarise this movie with a family guy quote ….

Jesus: Uh hot ladies. Horny ones. Who, uh, sex on you.
Quagmire: What?
Jesus: Yeah, you know, they come back to your house and sit on your butt.

8.5/10
Sensational
Well this was an interesting
one to say the least and
I actually really really enjoyed
it, yes the absolutely beautiful
Nuns were just an absolute
treat but the hole mystery
is she really channelling you know how
really kept me engaged the
hole way through.
I found everything very interesting in the way it was all playing out and therefore I was very entertained
and invested.
What I did enjoy to make me
love this movie even more
is at times especially towards
the end it went very
Games Of Thrones.

When they see this wholy unconventional convent ,religious dramahorror thiller, of 15th century european religious landscape threatened from all angles, like pestillence and comets and the inquisition, in a crooked abbedisement that tries to make a saint outta one of the members of the klosters, enduring saccral erotic fantasies, and the kind of most exquisit lesbian eroticism come to life, that may endorse anger from the most pope-linius vievers in the filmtheater.

A lovely and mysterious production that will shake some foundations, the locations, sets and acting are just enthralling and enwitching as never made before(except in the state of sexomania) a film that tiptoes the edges of acceptness among the holy and glorious viewers.

So the grumpy old man experienced the miracle and the rise of the cheesedoodle yet again, and i think many more out there will grin the same way as he did. A big recommend to this tet-a-tet story of the past.

when you expect a low budget shit show but damn it was totally worth my time. entertaining

It's like Showgirls in a convent, and I mean that in the best possible sense.

Verhoeven tackles the church / politics in his own way and no one gets up afterwards. While the male gaze is very present in this analysis of a cult of personality, anyone who expected anything else of Verhoeven hasn't truly seen any of his movies.

As for the nudity in the film... 1) Guys, it's a Verhoeven film, 2) haven't we graduated beyond the grade school mentality of "Ooh, boobies!" when discussing film (or anything else, for that matter)?

PS Virginie Efira turns in yet another electric performance and Daphne Patakia continues to impress. She truly is an exciting up and coming actress (you have to see Djam / Journey from Greece if you haven't yet).