With ‘Benedetta’, Paul Verhoeven (83) strikes again in a familiar style: provocative, ambiguous and possessed of a horny spirit. With the Belgian actress Virginie Efira in a star role as a – typically Verhoeven – lesbian nun. Only: can someone now also take offense?
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Did the 1970s actually ever end for Paul Verhoeven? That decade, for the nostalgic boomers who lived through it, has gradually begun to symbolize a flare-up of unseen…
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