They say there is no such thing as bad publicity, and a recent group of protesters have proven this age-old adage to be true when they picketed the New York Film Festival Premiere of Benedetta earlier this week, describing it as a “blasphemous lesbian movie”.Benedetta, is the work of director Paul Verhoeven and is based on the book Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy by Judith Brown.
It tells the true story of a 17th-century nun named Benedetta Carlini who had a sexual relationship with a fellow nun.While the film explores a “forbidden lesbian affair”, it is Benedetta’s scandalous religious visions that seem to have upset some Catholic groups.In footage of the protestors outside New York’s Alice Tully Hall, which.