BENEDETTA – May 12, 7:30 PM @ Cinestudio

Don’t miss Paul Verhoeven’s latest provocative, profane and exhilarating watch! 

17th-century Tuscany, Italy. As the sinister threat of the Plague looms over Europe, the sincerely devout eight-year-old novice, Benedetta Carlini, is brought into the Theatine Convent of the Mother of God in Pescia as a bride for Jesus Christ. Eighteen long years later, as ominous whispers of disputable miracles scandalize the cloistered sisters, a test of faith awaits deeply pious Benedetta in the shape of bruised, abused, and earthly Bartolomea: a young woman fleeing her violent father. Now, while under the vigilant eye of cynical Abbess Felicita, fleeting glimpses of the forbidden fruit invite a tentative intimacy, ungovernable desires, and intense diabolical obsessions in, and suddenly, the holy signs of faith are manifest in Sister Benedetta’s body. But, few can wrestle with guilt and emerge unscathed. Is there an escape from sin when the flesh is the enemy?

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“Will Benedetta’s personal relationship with God spare their Tuscan town from mass death, or will her forbidden sapphism be both her and the village’s demise? You’re going to want to find out – trust me.”  – Shannon Keating, BuzzFeed News

Directed by: Paul Verhoeven | 2021 | France, Netherlands | 131 minutes | In French and Latin with English subtitles