So, those of you who had ‘lesbian erotic nun drama’ in the Paul Verhoeven’s Next Picture pool, please come collect your winnings.
Virginie Efira, having recently portrayed a devout god-fearer in Elle, will take the lead role in the next film de Verhoeven.
Blessed Virgin will adapt a 1986 biography of Sister Benedetta Carlini, a 17th-century woman of the cloth who came under fire from her Christly higher-ups for heretical acts.
Sister Carlini was quite a character, seducing her fellow nuns and claiming to have gone through a wedding ceremony with a heavenly apparition of Jesus Christ.