Sinopsis(1)
In his career, spanning nearly fifty years, Paul Verhoeven managed to fascinate audiences time and again with movies in which the themes sex and violence play first fiddle. For director Elisabeth Van Zijll Langhout, Verhoeven’s first French film Elle forms the starting point of an extensive exploration of this director’s work. In an interview, Verhoeven looks back on his oeuvre, from Floris (1969) to Turks Fruit (1973) and from Basic Instinct (1992) to Zwartboek (2006). (Nederlands Film Festival)
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I don't know Paul Verhoeven's pre-American films, and this documentary did not overly entice me with its teasers, however much praise they received. This is because there was praise about everything, because if sometimes something went wrong (Showgirls), it of course didn't succeed because people weren't ready for it and that they only appreciated it later. Well, in the case of Showgirls, the time, I think, hasn't come yet. But what do I know, maybe the creators have seen into the future. Otherwise, I liked the passage through Verhoeven's life, his complete beginnings... And then, of course, the parts about Robocop, Total Recall, Basic Instinct, and Starship Troopers, which are action films in my opinion. It's too bad that there was no mention of Hollow Man, which, in my opinion, will get its appreciation sooner than the aforementioned Las Vegas affair.
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