Old habits die hard in Paul Verhoeven’s blasphemously sexy nun drama
Apr 11, 2022
2 minutes
Graeme Virtue
When it was announced that Paul Verhoeven was working on a French-language biographical drama about a notorious 17th-century lesbian nun it was hard not to approach this particular combination of artist and subject matter with some immaculate preconceptions. The veteran Dutch director behind , and raunchy semi-musical (a huge critical flop recently reclaimed as bulletproof camp) had built a splashy Hollywood career by orchestrating sensational scenes would be less and more Ken Russell’s censor-baiting nunsploitation shocker ?
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