5/20/2023 0 Comments Immodest Acts by Judith C. Brown![]() ![]() ![]() “Paul always wants to push the buttons at the edges of things,” reflects Brown. There are arms plunged into boiling vats, the Inquisition torturing naked women, burning of heretics, plague and snakes being beaded galore, with the camera lingering on a good-looking Jesus on the crucifix as his loin cloth is removed. And, at 83, he has delivered much the same recipe in Benedetta. ![]() Verhoeven made his name in Hollywood with films such as RoboCop (1987), Basic Instinct (1992) and Showgirls (1995) by giving his audiences plenty of violence and erotica. “I went into the project as a consultant on the film with my eyes open realising that historians don’t have the copyright on history.” “Because it was Paul Verhoeven, I knew from the start that there would be quite a bit more sex in the film than if I were making it,” American academic Judith C Brown cheerfully reflects of Benedetta, the veteran Dutch director’s big-screen version of her celebrated book Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy. ![]()
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