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Benedetta | Review

Blaspheme, Queen: Verhoeven Turns to Nunsploitation in Erotic Melodrama Occupying a dazzling intersection of exploitation and queer historical recuperation is the long-awaited Benedetta from Dutch...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2021: #10. Paul Verhoeven’s Benedetta

Benedetta Produced by Saïd Ben Saïd Directed by Paul Verhoeven Written by David Birke, Paul Verhoeven Starring: Charlotte Rampling, Lambert Wilson, Virginie Efira, Olivier Rabourdin, Clotilde Courau, Daphne...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #2. Benedetta – Paul Verhoeven

Benedetta Produced by Saïd Ben Saïd Directed by Paul Verhoeven Written by David Birke, Paul Verhoeven Starring: Charlotte Rampling, Lambert Wilson, Virginie Efira, Olivier Rabourdin, Clotilde Courau, Daphne...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #1. Benedetta – Paul Verhoeven

Benedetta Dutch auteur Paul Verhoeven made a whopping comeback with his first French language film in 2016’s Elle, which snagged Isabelle Huppert (check out our...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2016: #3. Paul Verhoeven’s Elle

Elle Director: Paul Verhoeven Writers: David Birke, Harold Manning Words cannot describe how excited we are to see the pairing of Paul Verhoeven and Isabelle Huppert in...

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