Ellise Shafer administratorThe New York Film Festival premiere of Paul Verhoeven’s “Benedetta” was greeted by a small group of protesters on Sunday.The biographical drama, starring Virginie Efira, tells the story of a 17th century nun who falls in love with another nun.
It opened to wide acclaim at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, receiving a five-minute standing ovation and quickly becoming the talk of the event.But a group of protesters from the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property didn’t have the same reaction, gathering outside of NYFF venue Alice Tully Hall with signs calling the film “blasphemous.”NYFF itself even acknowledged the protesters, posting a photo of a few of them along with information of.
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