Benedetta
Movie • 2020
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The story of Sister Benedetta Carlini, a 15th century nun who was hailed as a visionary but later accused of fabricated miracles, homosexuality and other charges, and imprisoned for 35 years.
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A character mentions that her brother and father use her 'like a wife' in all ways after the death of her mother
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Bartolomea shows signs of her father, and also husband, abused her. Not shown but discussed.
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Snakes in a vision are sliced up with a sword, though they're clearly CGI.
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Snakes are killed by being sliced in half
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Are there bugs?
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There are bugs in a drawer Bartolomea opens
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I disagree with the previous comment about it being the entire thing, but there is some in this film. Specifics as follows: Bartolomea before the film begins is sexually assaulted by her father and brothers. This is not seen but told early when we meet the character and she’s in the bathroom, signs of the abuse is shown and she mentions it. Later, Benedetta’s dream sequence shows her running from a group of men, they capture her and hold her down intending to rape her but nothing happens, as a man shows up and decapitates/murders her would be rapists. This man later tries to grab her and she fends him off before waking up. The third and final time of sexual assault is after the trial Bartolomea is taken to be torture and she is raped with a torture device. It’s is an incredibly upsetting scene to watch, but it cuts away shortly after it begins — her screams are heard though after we cut away that are equally distressing.
That is all for what is in this film. There are some other moments between the two main lovers where consent lines feel more blurry — there is a groping early in the film in the church that is unclear whether it was wanted and later a woman masturbates in front of her partner though the partner is not receptive. Those are two other times where it’s blurry.
That is all for what is in this film. There are some other moments between the two main lovers where consent lines feel more blurry — there is a groping early in the film in the church that is unclear whether it was wanted and later a woman masturbates in front of her partner though the partner is not receptive. Those are two other times where it’s blurry.
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Character is strapped down to a bed by ankles and wrists due to nightmares/visions
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Is there eye mutilation?
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The man with a missing eye as mentioned in the other comment shows up later in the film in a dream sequence and his eye is clawed at and scratched by a woman.
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Is someone tortured?
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A character is sexually tortured with a pear of anguish vaginally due to allegations of homosexuality
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Yes, after a nun who had sex with another woman by using a dildo is found out, she is raped with some medieval torture device, I'm not sure I had to skip
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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Benedetta tells Bartolomea to stick her hand into boiling water as punishment- and she does it. Her whole hand needs to be bandaged after.
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Is someone burned alive?
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Spoiler: sister Felicita throws herself into the fire
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Is there throat mutilation?
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In a vision/dream, men attempting a gang rape are sliced with a sword
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Is there shaving/cutting?
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Benedetta's breast is sliced in a dream.
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Is there amputation?
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One nun has a wooden finger that replaces the one that was sliced off when she was younger (this is not shown in the movie though)
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Are any hands damaged?
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A character accidentally drops valuable products into boiling water, then follows another character’s orders to reach in and pick them out. She misses some and so does this a second time. The resulting blisters are shown briefly and the character’s hands are bandaged in a subsequent scene.
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Does someone fall to their death?
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Yes, detailed in the does by suicide comment on this page.
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Is a child's toy destroyed?
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Technically, yes. A child's Virgin Mary statue is taken away from her as a child. Later as an adult another nun whittles it into a dildo.
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Is there a shower scene?
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When Bartolomea is taken into the convent she showers and it’s a short scene.
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Yes, around 18 minutes in. Bartolomea uses the toilet on screen. Sounds are heard. The way it's written makes me think someone on set had a fetish.
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Does someone spit?
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Early in the film Benedetta shows Bartolomea the bathrooms and then both poop, lots of fart sounds in this scene.
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The original abbess/Sister Felecita throws up blood at one point in the movie. The timestamp is around 1 hour and 43 minutes in (still in theaters so no specific timestamp). This happens after [SPOILERS] Bartolomea is screaming from torture, Benedetta is seen crying in the hallway then it cut to the sister about to vomit. Visuals and sounds, it only lasts about 10-15 seconds as a scene though.
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Does someone have cancer?
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Ambiguous. One of the nuns is ill with some sort of long-term disease which includes some sort of sores or tumors to her breast. She passes away from this about halfway through the movie.
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Is there a hospital scene?
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The infirmary is shown shortly when sister Bartolomea burns her hand
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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Is there body dysmorphia?
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Catholics perform self-flagellation as part of their faith
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After Sister Christina is humiliated and whips herself, the next scene we see her she climbs to the top of the convent and commits suicide. We see her fall and her on the ground, she is still alive initially after she lands. At the end of the film Sister Felicita commits suicide by jumping into the fire and burning herself alive.
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Sister Jacopa implies that the reason she does self harm is because of her “sin” of being born a Jew.
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No. One of the characters is charged with b********y in the context of "taboo" sex (in this case, lesbian sex). A character implies that the perpetrator of her sexual abuse would have done so even if she were a goat.
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Bartolomea mentions that her father used her as a wife after his wife died, but nothing is shown
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Is there sexual content?
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The women in this movie are naked more often than they're clothed. There is consensual sexual content between two women, a vision of an attempted gang rape, and a woman being tortured in a sexual manner.
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bartolomea is cast out of the convent
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Does it have a sad ending?
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I think it’s ambiguous. Specifically for queer films, both of the queer women survive this film and I think in the performances (and looking historically at what actually happened) insinuate that these women reunite. Benedetta herself lived a long life as revealed by the post film dialogue. I think that if we’re viewing it through her it is a happy ending.
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After a vision where she embraces the crucified Jesus, Benedetta has stigmata (holes in each palm, and a slash in her side) that bleed freely and deeply. She also bleeds down her face from “crown of thorns” wounds on her head.
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