This Is How You Handle The Catholic Leagues Criticism of Your New Movie

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This Is How You Handle The Catholic League’s Criticism of Your New Movie

Earlier this year, the Sundance Film Festival premiered a movie called The Little Hours. It’s a comedy about a servant from medieval Italy who escapes his master and hides out at a convent… which happens to be full of nuns who have no business being in a convent. Think Sister Act if some of the women didn’t actually care about God.

As soon as the film was shown, along with another poking fun at the Church,
Bill Donohue of The Catholic League was quick to denounce both.

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This just goes to prove, one more time, that Hollywood is utterly incapable of making a movie about traditional Catholics that is not wholly stereotypical. Now that Sony — a studio with a history of anti-Catholic films — has acquired the rights, look for us to say much more when this flick hits the big screen.

“The Little Hours” makes “Novitiate” look tame. It is trash, pure trash.
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Perhaps Sundance will host a film about all those sexually free souls who threw restraint to the wind. Many, however, are dead, and those who plundered on are not exactly beaming with joy. Not the kind of film that is likely to attract Sony. It prefers to deal with sadistic sisters.

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This is typical for Donohue. No one is allowed to make fun of the Church ever. And when the story isn’t a parody or satire — but an accurate reflection of actions taken by the Church’s leaders, like in Spotlight — he only gets madder.

But the team behind The Little Hours handled it perfectly. They didn’t respond to Donohue. Instead, they used his criticism in a poster for the film.

Film is a comedy adaptation of the Decameron
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Decameron

The Decameron (Italian: Decameron [deˈkaːmeron; dekameˈrɔn; dekameˈron] or Decamerone [dekameˈroːne]), subtitled Prince Galehaut (Old Italian: Prencipe Galeotto [ˈprentʃipe ɡaleˈɔtto; ˈprɛntʃipe]), is a collection of novellas by the 14th-century Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375). The book is structured as a frame story containing 100 tales told by a group of seven young women and three young men sheltering in a secluded villa just outside Florence to escape the Black Death, which was afflicting the city. Boccaccio probably conceived the Decameron after the epidemic of 1348, and completed it by 1353. The various tales of love in The Decameron range from the erotic to the tragic. Tales of wit, practical jokes, and life lessons contribute to the mosaic. In addition to its literary value and widespread influence (for example on Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales), it provides a document of life at the time. Written in the vernacular of the Florentine language, it is considered a masterpiece of classical early Italian prose.