‘Your Move, Creep!’

By: Hannah Proctor

Paul Verhoeven’s latest film Benedetta, about a nun who enters into a lesbian relationship in her convent while experiencing erotic visions of Jesus, may be disappointing – but at their best Verhoeven’s films do more than just shock.

Director Paul Verhoeven on megaphone in between scenes from the film 'Total Recall', 1990. (Photo by TriStar Pictures/Getty Images)

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From the man who brought us teenagers battling space insects, Martian secret agents, and volcanic strip clubs, comes Benedetta, a tale of seventeenth-century lesbian nuns. With its flimsy sets and drab palette, the film is aesthetically closer to a school nativity play than to Ken Russell’s 1971 masterpiece of sexual repression and demonic possession, The […]

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From the man who brought us teenagers battling space insects, Martian secret agents, and volcanic strip clubs, comes Benedetta, a tale of seventeenth-century lesbian nuns. With its flimsy sets and drab palette, the film is aesthetically closer to a school nativity play than to Ken Russell’s 1971 masterpiece of sexual repression and demonic possession, The […]

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From the man who brought us teenagers battling space insects, Martian secret agents, and volcanic strip clubs, comes Benedetta, a tale of seventeenth-century lesbian nuns. With its flimsy sets and drab palette, the film is aesthetically closer to a school nativity play than to Ken Russell’s 1971 masterpiece of sexual repression and demonic possession, The […]

From the man who brought us teenagers battling space insects, Martian secret agents, and volcanic strip clubs, comes Benedetta, a tale of seventeenth-century lesbian nuns. With its flimsy sets and drab palette, the film is aesthetically closer to a school nativity play than to Ken Russell’s 1971 masterpiece of sexual repression and demonic possession, The […]

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