Benedetta Takes a Brutal but Accurate Angle on Christian History
Paul Verhoeven s lifelong research on the Church culminates in a marvelously incisive nun thriller.
Benedetta is many things: a lesbian nun thriller, a visceral body horror, a 17th century period piece, a bureaucratic maze, an adapted historical account, and more. But above all, it’s a sharp, stinging critique of the Christian church’s putrid history of manipulation and power-mongering – an exposé on what the church actually looked like, a concerned wake up call that echoes more and more across cultures as we evolve: “Who decides what is god’s will?”