The film is an artistic exploration of people at the fringes of a subculture. It crafts that subculture as something capable of great beauty under the direction of Monika Treut and her colour-saturated, Dutch angle-loving camera. 7.3/10
Tag: <span>1985</span>
For decades, Beyond the Walls would have been the best lesbian nun movie about a woman who fakes a stigmata. But Benedetta blows it out of the water. 5.6/10
There’s really no reason to watch this version of Manji when two much better ones did it first. 5.0/10
The fact that so many WLW movies since have been inspired by Desert Hearts or used it as a jumping off point is a positive, not a negative. Desert Hearts laid the foundation for WLW romances movies decades to come. 8.1/10