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Benedetta
MEANRANK
70/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2375
- IMDb #3021
- Google retired #3417
- Metacritic #1480
- Letterboxd #2585
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1637
+6 more
- Metacritic Critics #1019
- Metacritic Audience #2572
- Criticker #1340
- Kinopoisk #4079
- AlloCiné #3356
- Trakt #3569
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 54, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 90. Critics average 80, everyone else 67.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →In 17th-century Italy, a nun in a convent begins to experience intense religious visions and stigmata. Her displays of divine grace bring her influence and challenge the convent's leadership. Her journey becomes intertwined with a passionate affair with another sister, creating a scandal that draws the attention of the Church and the Inquisition.
Details
- Director
- Paul Verhoeven
- Writers
- David Birke, Paul Verhoeven
- Based on
- Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy by Judith Cora Brown
- Studio
- SBS Productions, Topkapi Films, Pathé, France 2 Cinéma
- Released
- 9 July 2021
- Country
- Belgium, France, Netherlands
- Language
- French, Latin
- Runtime
- 131 min
- Rated
- NR
- Budget
- $24.4M
- Box office
- $2.7M
- Awards
- 1 win, 10 nominations
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Awards & nominations
See all 11 →1 win from 11 nominations across 8 ceremonies
| César Awards 2022 | Best Actress | Virginie Efira | Nominee |
| Cannes Film Festival 2021 | Palme d'Or | Paul Verhoeven | Nominee |
| Cannes Film Festival 2021 | Queer Palm | Paul Verhoeven | Nominee |
| Hawaii Film Critics Society 2022 | Best Best Foreign Language Film | Benedetta | Nominee |
| Las Vegas Film Critics Society 2022 | Best Foreign Language Film | Benedetta | Nominee |
| Lumière Awards 2022 | Best Actress | Virginie Efira | Nominee |
| Lumière Awards 2022 | Best Female Revelation | Daphné Patakia | Nominee |
| Magritte Awards 2022 | Most Promising Actress | Daphné Patakia | Nominee |
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11 awards — Benedetta
×| Palme d'Or | Paul Verhoeven | Nominee |
| Queer Palm | Paul Verhoeven | Nominee |
| Best Actress | Virginie Efira | Nominee |
| Top Five Foreign Language Films | Benedetta | Winner |
| Best Actress | Virginie Efira | Nominee |
| Best Female Revelation | Daphné Patakia | Nominee |
| Best Actress | Virginie Efira | Nominee |
| Best Foreign Film by or About Women | Benedetta | Nominee |
| Best Best Foreign Language Film | Benedetta | Nominee |
| Best Foreign Language Film | Benedetta | Nominee |
| Most Promising Actress | Daphné Patakia | Nominee |