Sisters were doin' it for themselves. (Image via IFC) If you can keep a straight face watching Paul Verhoeven's French-language lesbian nun drama Benedetta, you're ungodly gifted and more pure of thought than I.
While it is ultimately masterfully gripping storytelling, it is a throwback to exploitation dramas of the '70s that had me humming the lyrics to Rochelle, Rochelle: The Musical.
A young woman's erotic journey, indeed. Based on the nonfiction book Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy by Judith C.
Brown, the movie is about Benedetta Carlini (Virginie Efira), a real-life nun in 17th-century Italy who pitches herself as a vessel of God, even presenting stigmata — or are they self-inflicted cuts?