Tag Archives: Paul Verhoeven

nasty times (Film: Flesh + Blood – Paul Verhoeven, 1985)

Posted on October 21, 2019 by admin

Paul Verhoeven‘s films leave indifferent few of the spectators who dare to watch them. The combination of violence and eroticism that characterizes them has been around for 40 years and is a mark of most of the Dutch director’s films. … Continue reading →

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Paul Verhoeven about the black times (Film: Zwartboek / Black Book – Paul Verhoeven, 2006)

Posted on August 30, 2019 by admin

Paul Verhoeven and Quentin Tarantino belong to a separate category of directors. Their films loaded with violence and in the case of Verhoeven and eroticism, both explicit and extreme to the conventional tastes, risk calculated and intentionally attracting the public … Continue reading →

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dark and intriguing (Film: Elle – Paul Verhoeven, 2016)

Posted on November 28, 2016 by admin

Paul Verhoeven is close to 80 years old. I was unaware about this biographical detail until reading his bio on IMDB. I thought about him as being much younger, and the reasons are to be found in his films. Verhoeven … Continue reading →

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