Cannes Review: Paul Verhoeven’s ‘Benedetta’
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deadline.comEver the bad boy even into his 80s, director Paul Verhoeven stirs the pot and turns the heat up to the boiling point in Benedetta, a medieval brew of religious fervor, illicit lesbian sex in a convent, Catholic church politics and — to incidentally add a contemporaneous touch — a plague sweeping the land.
Shot three summers ago in Tuscany and delayed in its Cannes Film Festival premiere by a year due to the 2020 edition’s cancellation, the film, like all the director’s work, is wild, intelligent, pulsating, provocative and vibrantly alive.
Cecil B. DeMille would be outraged, while Ken Russell would be wildly jealous.Verhoeven followers will recall that, in contrast to his ribald reputation, he came out with a scholarly book in 2008 called
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