Paul Verhoeven Rejects Notion ‘Benedetta’ Is Blasphemous, Laments Changing Attitudes Towards Nudity – Cannes
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deadline.comAt the Cannes Film Festival press conference for Paul Verhoeven’s competition title Benedetta this morning, director and cast fielded a series of questions about the film’s use of nudity and sex while Verhoeven bristled at the suggestion Benedetta is in any way blasphemous. “I do not understand really how you can be blasphemous about something that happened… You cannot basically change history after the fact.
You can talk about that was wrong or not, but you cannot change history. I think the word blasphemy for me in this case is stupid,” he said.The steamy period piece, which premiered last night, is the true story of Sister Benedetta Carlini, a 17th Century abbess whose claims of mystical visions and miracles were investigated by the
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