Now eighty-three, Verhoeven has a new film, “Benedetta,” which is based on an academic monograph about a pair of lesbian nuns in Renaissance Italy, Benedetta and Bartolomea, who have, yes, a lot of sex. From his earlier Dutch productions (“Spetters” and “The Fourth Man”) to his Hollywood genre thrillers (“RoboCop,” “Total Recall,” and “Basic Instinct”) to his more recent European art-house films (“ Black Book” and “ Elle”) what unites Verhoeven’s wide-ranging œuvre is a character-defining sex scene. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, it has all the signatures of a Verhoeven project: love, madness, violence, nudity, and a lot of sex. Paul Verhoeven’s breakout movie, “Turkish Delight,” from 1973, is still one of the highest-grossing Dutch films ever made.
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