Benedetta: Verhoeven's film about a 17th-century nun.

A screening of the film "Benedetta". Paul Verhoeven directs this 2021 film inspired by the life of Benedetta Carlini, a 17th-century Tuscan nun whose claims of mystic visions drew the attention of church higher-ups, whose investigations revealed a forbidden sexual relationship with a fellow nun and led to her imprisonment. Virginie Efira plays the title role, with Charlotte Rampling as the convent's abbess hiding roiling inner turmoil beneath a composed exterior. The film examines the difficult relationship between religious submission and sexual liberation amid the squalor and earthly delights of Counter-Reformation era Europe.