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by Mymy · 08.02.2022

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Benadetta will be played by Virginie Efira, a Belgian actress who also appeared in Verhoeven’s film

And so no one should be shocked when his latest resistance heroine, Benedetta Carlini (Virginie Efira), and a fellow nun get acquainted side by side in a convent outhouse, complete with realistically muffled sound effects. It’s a veritable meet-toot. Verhoeven clearly wants us to laugh; the movie’s a gas. But he doesn’t mind if we think too — about the earthy realities of the body, the higher abstractions of the soul and all the thornily ambiguous ways they do and don’t connect. “Your worst enemy is your body,” a nun tells the young Benedetta when she first arrives at the convent. “Best not to feel at home in it.”

The foreign-language movie — loosely adapted from the book “Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy” — stars Belgian actress Virginie Efira as Benedetta Carlini, an 1800s French nun who believes she is possessed by Jesus Christ.

“Since Paul isn’t a big fan of the psychology of the characters, we talked, of course, with him, but we didn’t do much preparation,” Patakia told NBC News in a joint video interview with Efira. “He has a lot of faith in his actors, so we were very much free to do our own interpretation. It was only what I could take from the script and just to be open in the moment and take whatever was happening with Virginie, and the only thing I knew Paul really wanted from me was some lightness. The lightness was very important.”

Benedetta had entered a convent at the age of nine in 1599. In her early twenties, she began to have visions. In these visions, Brown writes, she was “pursued at night by handsome young men who wanted to her and who beat her all over with iron chains, swords, sticks and other weapons”. She also saw Jesus, developed stigmata, and was considered as a true mystic. Benedetta (played by Virginie Efira in Verhoeven’s upcoming film) was eventually elected abbess but that was before the ecclesiastical officials discovered her relationship with her special companion, Sister Bartolomea Crivelli, with whom she engaged in “the most immodest acts”.

While Paul Verhoeven’s Benedetta was preparing to be released in Russia on October 7, we learn that the Russian Ministry of Culture has withdrawn the operating visa for the film with Virginie Efira as a lesbian nun.

Before Virginie Efira agreed to play Paul Verhoeven’s new heroine in

Paul Verhoeven, left, and Virginie Efira pose for photographers upon arrival at the premiere of the film ‘Benedetta’ at the 74th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Friday, July 9, 2021. (Photo by Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP)

If the career on the big screen of Virginie Efira has everything of a rise in power, from the first popular comedies which surfed on her notoriety to a remarkable breakthrough in author cinema, in particular alongside Justine Triet (