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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsSweet Jesus: 'Benedetta' Is the Steamy Tale of Two Lesbian Nuns and Their Virgin Mary Dildo
The latest from filmmaker Paul Verhoeven (Basic Instinct, Showgirls) is a bawdy, pot-stirring satire of religious chastity centered on a horny nun who just might be a saint.https://www.thedailybeast.com/benedetta-is-the-steamy-tale-of-two-lesbian-nuns-and-their-virgin-mary-dildo
Paul Verhoeven is a satiric provocateur who genuinely believes inand is drawn tothe power and passion of sex. Benedetta is thus an ideal vehicle for the Basic Instinct, Showgirls and Elle director, recounting the inspired-by-real-events ordeal of a 17th century nun who thought herself the bride of Christ and expressed her divine love through a lesbian affair. Pain, piety, sin, and desire all collide in this hot-to-trot import (in theatres now), which critiques the church and its notions of legitimate holiness via a tale thats as playfully blasphemous as it is eroticboth of which are epitomized by the unforgettable sight of a handheld Virgin Mary wood carving fashioned into a sex toy.
A tempestuous balance between the sacred and the profane is struck by Benedetta, which opens with young Benedetta (Elena Plonka) being transported by her wealthy parents to a convent in Pescia, a small village in the Tuscany region of Italy. Along their journey, they stop to pray to the Virgin Mary and are accosted by a group of soldiers who mock their devotion and attempt to steal a medallion from the girls mother. Benedetta warns them that the rustling wind is proof that Mary intends to punish them for their affront and, though they scoff at this idea, theyre proven wrong when one of them receives bird shit in the eye. Benedettas saintliness is thereby confirmed from the outset, depicted by Verhoeven with the sort of impish humor that defines his ensuing tale, in which Benedetta is welcomed into the convent and discovers that shes destined for divine things.
If Benedetta speaks directly to God, her new homes abbess (Charlotte Rampling) is primarily concerned with running and maintaining her own position at the convent. That shes introduced haggling with Benedettas father over the dowry price hell pay to have his daughter admitted marks her as a greedy woman consumed by matters more material (and personal) than heavenly. As embodied by Rampling, the abbess is a stern and shrewd ruler who hews to the church playbook to a tee. Benedetta, however, is anything but conventional, as illustrated by her first night at the convent, during which she stops to pray to a giant statue of the Virgin Mary only to have the figure literally fall on top of her, perched prostrate as if it were a lover, its naked breast exposedat which the adolescent Benedetta instinctively suckles. Unlike Sister Jacopa (Guilaine Londez), who wishes that her entire body was as wooden as her fake finger (and carved with the name of God), Benedettas devotion isnt cold and dead like a gravestone but, rather, flesh-and-blood hot.
Eighteen years later, Benedetta (Virginie Efira) hasnt cooled off. On stage, she speaks about coveting Jesus bodily presence and then has a vision in which she runs to Christ as he tends to his flock of sheep. The plague may be ravaging Italy, yet Benedettas sole interest is betrothing herself to the Lord. She finds a perfect vehicle to create a sultry holy union when Bartolomea (Daphne Patakia) bursts into the convent while fleeing her abusive and incestuous father, andafter the abbess convinces Benedettas father to pay for this unfortunate soul to staybecomes Benedettas ally and friend. Their bond is strengthened by various flirtatious and sacrilegious incidents, including Benedetta taking Bartolomea to the commode (where she delightedly poops and farts), and Bartolomea sneaking a naughty peek at Benedettas nude body around (and through) the transparent sheet that separates their beds. At the same time that the couples temperature rises, Benedetta also draws closer to Christ, climaxing with a vision of him on the cross that leaves her with incessantly bleeding stigmata wounds.
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Sweet Jesus: 'Benedetta' Is the Steamy Tale of Two Lesbian Nuns and Their Virgin Mary Dildo (Original Post)
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Dec 2021
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peacefreak2.0
(1,023 posts)1. I dunno.
The Little Hours sounds like more fun.