- Original name: Benedetta
- Country: France
- Genre: drama, melodrama, biography, history
- Producer: Paul Verhoeven
- World premiere: 2021
- Starring: S. Rampling, L. Wilson, V. Efira, O. Rabourdin, D. Patakia, K. Kuro, Q. D'Hainaut, A. Shardard, L. Chevillot, E. Pierre and others.
The Holy Virgin is a new thriller from the cult director and taboo-breaker Paul Verhoeven, director of Basic Instinct and RoboCop, whose films are distinguished by an abundance of explicit and erotic scenes. The film is an adaptation of the historian Judith S. Brown's novel Unhealthy Deeds: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy. The trailer for the film "Holy Maiden" (2021) has not yet appeared on the network, and the exact release date has not yet been announced, but you can already see footage from the set and evaluate the plot.
Expectations rating - 97%.
Plot
Italy, 17th century. Nun Benedetta Carlini, 23, who has lived in the monastery since the age of 9, suffers from religious and erotic visions. Another woman helps her cope, and soon their relationship develops into a romance.
Production
Directed and co-written by Paul Verhoeven (Basic Instinct, She, Showgirls, Robocop, Starship Troopers).
Voiceover team:
- Screenplay: David Birk (13 Sins), P. Verhoeven, Judith S. Brown;
- Producers: Said Ben Said (The Massacre, The Unlucky), Kevin Kneyweiss (Synonyms), Fabrice Delville (Coco to Chanel, Customs Gives the Okay), etc .;
- Operator: Jeanne Lapuari ("8 Women", "Far in the Neighborhood");
- Artists: Katya Vyshkop (Versailles), Eric Bourget (Tenderness), Pierre-Jean Larroc (Little Nicolas);
- Editing: Job ter Burg ("Underworld");
- Music: Anne Dudley (Black Book).
Studios
- SBS Productions
- M.A.G. Special Effects
Filming location: France / Netherlands / Italy.
Actors
Leading roles:
Interesting Facts
Did you know that:
- The film was originally scheduled to be shown at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival. But Paul Verhoeven unexpectedly suffered a hip injury while filming in December 2018 due to the location of the set in a hilly area. Post-production in Amsterdam had to be postponed until next June to allow Paul to recover from surgery. However, subsequent complications caused intestinal obstruction, which resulted in life-threatening colon perforation. Fortunately, Verhoeven was hospitalized on time. The release of the film was delayed until 2020 so that the director could fully recover and actively participate in all stages of post-production.
- This is the second project in which Paul Verhoeven works with Virginia Ether after the fantastic film She (2016).
- This is Verhoeven's second French film.
- Gerard Soetman, a longtime colleague of the director Verhoeven, wrote the first draft of the script long before the film went into production. He was not involved in the later rewriting of David Birk. Soetman opted to go without accreditation, citing his dissatisfaction with the film's emphasis on sexual content. And especially on how Paul Verhoeven threw away many of the feminist elements in his version of the script in favor of sexualizing characters.
- Although Paul Verhoeven hoped to convince Isabelle Huppert to play a supporting role in the film, producer Said Ben Said said on Twitter on May 31, 2018 that the actress would not be joining the project.
It's easy to decide what to watch in the movies in 2021. The film "The Holy Virgin" is likely to be highly appreciated by the audience. It remains to wait for the announcement of the exact release date and the appearance of the trailer.
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