Turkish Delight
Total Verhoeven
November 9 - 23, 2016
Named the Best Dutch Film of the Century by the Netherlands Film Festival, Verhoeven’s hugely successful sophomore film is an alternately sweet and steamy romance filled with his typically perverse touches.
Named the Best Dutch Film of the Century by the Netherlands Film Festival, Verhoeven’s hugely successful, Academy Award–nominated sophomore feature opens with a giallo-style jolt, develops into a kinky, blackly comic sexploitation romp, and finally blossoms into an alternately sweet and perverse romance. In the first of his many collaborations with Verhoeven, Rutger Hauer stars as a temperamental sculptor who hitches a ride with a free-spirited young woman (Monique van de Ven). In short order they hook up on the side of the road, get married, and settle into a life of round-the-clock lovemaking in his art-strewn studio—but, alas, nothing lasts forever.
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