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Take A Look At The First Pic From Paul Verhoeven’s Lesbian Nun Film, Benedetta

September 10, 2018 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment


Paul Verhoeven spent a long time in Hollywood making the likes of RoboCop, Starship Troopers, Basic Instinct and Hollow Man. However, more recently he’s returned to Europe and found more artistic success (or at least interest) with Black Book and Elle. Now he’s taking on lesbian nuns, which would normally sound worrying exploitative from the man Showgirls, but it seems he’s taking it seriously.

The film is based on Judith C. Brown’s non-fiction book, Immodest Acts: The Life Of A Lesbian Nun In Renaissance Italy. Here’s the book’s synopsis: ‘Born of well-to-do parents, Benedetta Carlini entered the convent at the age of nine. At twenty-three, she began to have visions of both a religious and erotic nature. Benedetta was elected abbess due largely to these visions, but later aroused suspicions by claiming to have had supernatural contacts with Christ. During the course of an investigation, church authorities not only found that she had faked her visions and stigmata, but uncovered evidence of a lesbian affair with another nun, Bartolomeo. The story of the relationship between the two nuns and of Benedetta’s fall from an abbess to an outcast is revealed in surprisingly candid archival documents and retold here with a fine sense of drama.’

The first image from the movie has been released, which you can see above. It shows Virginie Efira as the title character, flanked by soldiers. Charlotte Rampling also stars. The movie is currently shooting in Italy, with plans for a 2019 release.

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Paul Verhoeven Takes On Jesus Christ With Roger Avary Scripting

June 20, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Pulp Fiction and Beowulf writer Roger Avary has signed up to script Paul Verhoeven’s planned biblical biopic, Jesus of Nazareth. He will adapt the book of the same name, written by Paul Verhoeven, Susan Massotty and Rob Van Scheers.

It’s a bit of a departure for the RoboCop and Basic Instinct helmer, but the book was written after the director immersed himself in the history of Jesus for nearly 20 years. He believes that the immaculate conception and resurrection of Jesus did not happen. An even more controversial suggestion in the book is that Verhoeven believes that Mary was raped by a Roman soldier, which was common at the time. He portrays Jesus as a radical prophet who performed exorcisms and hoped to find Heaven on earth.

Verhoeven recently commented, “If you look at the man, it’s clear you have a person who was completely innovative in the field of ethics. My own passion for Jesus came when I started to realize that. It’s not about miracles, it’s about a new set of ethics, an openness towards the world, which was anathema in a Roman-dominated world. I believe he was crucified because they felt that politically, he was a dangerous person whose following was getting bigger and bigger. Jesus’ ideals are about the utopia of human behaviour, about how we should treat each other, how we should step into the shoes of our enemy.”

However, bringing the ideas to film are likely to prove controversial, as many get angry about anything that strays from the biblical text (or at least the common perception of it), and which questions Jesus’ divinity. There’s no info on when it might shoot (although it already has financing), but prepare for controversy and much harumphing. (Source: Deadline)

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