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The 4th Man

De vierde man
Paul Verhoeven
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Total Verhoeven

November 9 - 23, 2016

The last film Verhoeven directed in Holland before decamping for Hollywood is one of his most outlandish and inspired: an alternately funny and freaky hothouse blend of oneiric symbolism, homoeroticism, religious iconography, and witchcraft.

DIRECTOR
Paul Verhoeven
YEAR
1983
COUNTRY
Netherlands
RUNTIME
102 minutes
LANGUAGE
Dutch with English subtitles
FORMAT
35mm
ORIGINAL TITLE
De vierde man

While most of Verhoeven’s works can be read as subversive genre exercises, the last Dutch film he made before decamping for Hollywood plays like a feverish satire of a Serious European Art Film. Haunted by surreal visions of death and violence, a Catholic, alcoholic, bisexual writer (Jeroen Krabbé) is seduced by and shacks up with a suspiciously thrice-widowed beauty salon owner (Renée Soutendijk)—but he really has eyes for her sexy, would-be boyfriend (Thom Hoffman). One of the director’s most outlandish and inspired films is an alternately funny and freaky hothouse blend of oneiric symbolism, homoeroticism, religious iconography, and witchcraft.

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