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  The Independent

  Paul Verhoeven blesses Cannes with lesbian nun drama

  The veteran provocateur Paul Verhoeven premiered his lesbian nun drama “Benedetta” at the Cannes Film Festival with a solemn vow to resurrect sexuality in movies

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  The Telegraph

  Benedetta, review: Paul Verhoeven’s story of a wild lesbian nun is as outrageous as you’d expect

  How, in a biopic, might one go about telling the life story of Benedetta Carlini, a 17th-century lesbian nun who became abbess of the Tuscan convent at Pescia, only to be stripped of her position and put in prison for having a well-documented affair with a fellow sister?

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  France 24

  Cannes 2019, Day 12: Vampire shrink caps off most dazzling festival in years

  Virginie Efira hits a career high as the protagonist of Justine Triet’s “Sibyl”, a clever and stylish thriller that wrapped up the most exciting – and competitive – Cannes Film Festival in years. Time for our Palme d'Or predictions. The 72nd Cannes Film Festival had given us just about every film genre imaginable, from western to bromance to cop procedural. But one Cannes staple was missing: the psychotherapist thriller, that very French fascination. Enter Justine Triet with “Sibyl”, her first s

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  The Telegraph

  Elle review: Isabelle Huppert chills in a troublingly funny, subversively chic rape-revenge thriller

  What do you get when you cross Isabelle Huppert with Paul Verhoeven? The answer is no joke – though it’s often troublingly funny, with an anvil-heavy emphasis on troubling. Elle is Verhoeven’s first movie in six years, Huppert’s fourth in one, and a blistering ethical fire-walk for more or less anyone who dares watch it. Based on the novel Oh…, by Philippe Djian, the French author of Betty Blue, the film begins with a scenario that’s wholly sickening, but also an insta-plot cliché.

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