Gross, indecent, vulgar, and willfully abusive of all that Catholics hold sacred, 'Benedetta' received positive and even enthusiastic notices from some French critics, as well as from the BBC, the Hollywood Reporter, Variety, and indieWire.
Thirty-five years into the AIDS pandemic, some 311,000 men who have sex with men (MSM) have died of the disease here in the U.S., and MSM are responsible for almost 30,000 new HIV infections per year.