In Benedetta of Paul Verhoeven – to discover this evening on Canal + – Virginie Efira embodies a sulphurous nun (this is how Paul Verhoenven depicts it anyway) of the 17th century. The Dutch director of Basic Instinct, Starship Troopers or Shefreely adapted the essay by an American historian, Judith C. Brown, entitled “Sister Benedetta, … Read more
In the early 1980s, I embarked on writing a science fiction novel about a future in which the United States had broken up. Part of the country was now a theocratic dictatorship based on the religious doctrine and jurisprudence of Puritan New England in the 17th century. I had set the scene in the vicinity … Read more
In the early 1980s, I embarked on writing a science fiction novel about a future in which the United States had broken up. Part of the country was now a theocratic dictatorship based on the religious doctrine and jurisprudence of Puritan New England in the 17and century. I had set the scene in the vicinity … Read more