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Paul VerhoevensBenedettabegins with a title card that reads, This film was inspired by real events.

Bartolomea is desperate to escape her abusive father and also, wouldnt you know it, superhot.
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute gay power corrupt absolutely gayly?
Lying beneath the heavy statue, calm yet intrigued, Benedetta runs her tongue along its exposed left boob.
During a play put on by the church, Benedetta witnesses Hot Jesus in a vision.
Youre my wife, he says cheerfully.
The two make out as their hands bleed against each others, and Benedetta reaches her first paingasm.
They wipe with a pile of leaves, and Benedetta tells Bartolomea that she is beautiful.
In a side plot that is rarely explained, another nun is bleeding constantly from her left boob.
Left boobs are important in this movie.
(Yes, there is light fisting and extremely confident oral.)
When Benedetta orgasms, she screams, My God!
More than one nun dies by theatrical suicide.
Rampling calls Benedetta a lying bitch whore.
Someone who shall remain nameless is punished via a horrifying gynecological torture unit called the pear.
There is a comet.