Turkish Delight (1973)
(Turks fruit)
Country: NL
Technical: col 112m
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Cast: Monique van de Ven, Rutger Hauer
Synopsis:
A brutish, free-spirited artist marries above himself but the relationship turns sour before she dies of a brain tumour.
Review:
Based on a Dutch bestseller, this study of the downturn of the hippy dream come the hedonism of the seventies is so preoccupied with images of vomit, defecation and putrefaction that it will quickly put off all but the most avid of Verhoeven devotees. From its opening sequence of apparently gratuitous (fantasised) violence the director's sledgehammer aesthetic underlines the gaping divide between a north-European sensibility and an Anglo-Saxon one! Apparently the most successful Danish film ever for some time, it is worthy of note for a characteristically impish early performance from Hauer and some fine camerawork courtesy of Jan De Bont. The title derives from the contents of the doomed heroine's last meal.
(Turks fruit)
Country: NL
Technical: col 112m
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Cast: Monique van de Ven, Rutger Hauer
Synopsis:
A brutish, free-spirited artist marries above himself but the relationship turns sour before she dies of a brain tumour.
Review:
Based on a Dutch bestseller, this study of the downturn of the hippy dream come the hedonism of the seventies is so preoccupied with images of vomit, defecation and putrefaction that it will quickly put off all but the most avid of Verhoeven devotees. From its opening sequence of apparently gratuitous (fantasised) violence the director's sledgehammer aesthetic underlines the gaping divide between a north-European sensibility and an Anglo-Saxon one! Apparently the most successful Danish film ever for some time, it is worthy of note for a characteristically impish early performance from Hauer and some fine camerawork courtesy of Jan De Bont. The title derives from the contents of the doomed heroine's last meal.
(Turks fruit)
Country: NL
Technical: col 112m
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Cast: Monique van de Ven, Rutger Hauer
Synopsis:
A brutish, free-spirited artist marries above himself but the relationship turns sour before she dies of a brain tumour.
Review:
Based on a Dutch bestseller, this study of the downturn of the hippy dream come the hedonism of the seventies is so preoccupied with images of vomit, defecation and putrefaction that it will quickly put off all but the most avid of Verhoeven devotees. From its opening sequence of apparently gratuitous (fantasised) violence the director's sledgehammer aesthetic underlines the gaping divide between a north-European sensibility and an Anglo-Saxon one! Apparently the most successful Danish film ever for some time, it is worthy of note for a characteristically impish early performance from Hauer and some fine camerawork courtesy of Jan De Bont. The title derives from the contents of the doomed heroine's last meal.