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Benedetta is the 2021 film directed by Paul Verhoeven and is adapted from the book “Immodest Acts” by historian Judith C. Brown. This creative and sometimes subversive look at the life of Sister Benedetta Carlini examines religion, guilt, superstition, sexuality, and asceticism, often through the lens of religious allegory. Director Verhoeven often takes creative liberty…