THE NORTH RIDING PROJECT

Sizzling with blasphemous delights, nunsploitation films are a heavenly mix of the sacred and the profane, where the hunger of the body rails against the strictures of religious dogmas.  Underneath the severe habits, pain and pleasure coexist, as scenes or torture and self-flagellation are often juxtaposed with the fleshy rapture of homoeroticism.  Scintillating on the surface, their constellation of lesbianism, hysteria, and sacrilegious visions constitutes a defiance against the masculine hierarchy of the Catholic Church.

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