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Paul VerhoevenForgatókönyvíró:
Gerard SoetemanOperatőr:
Jan de BontZeneszerző:
Loek DikkerSzereplők:
Jeroen Krabbé, Renée Soutendijk, Dolf de Vries, Thom Hoffman, Geert de Jong, Hero Muller, Filip Bolluyt, Hans Veerman, Erik J. Meijer (több)Tartalmak(1)
Magic realistic thriller, adapted from the novel by Gerard Reve, revolves around the themes of homosexuality and fear of dying. De vierde man tells of an erratic homosexual writer who gets entangled in an affair with an admirer of his. He finds out that all three of her husbands died in accidents. Owing to the film's superior style - Verhoeven was compared with famous directors like Kubrick, Hitchcock and Bergman - it won awards at several foreign festivals. It was his last Dutch film, before he left for Hollywood. (Nederlands Film Festival)
(több)Recenziók (2)
Paul Verhoeven is not as explicit as David Cronenberg, but he can still capture the essence of human beings and their dark side with such terrifying beauty that you don't even want to look at it. This is exactly the case that is beautifully raw and also brutal, when in the end you lovingly sigh at how wonderfully it reminds you of Italian giallo.
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Gerard is truly a showpiece in the gallery of Paul's usual asshole protagonists, so the typically Verhoeven plot, a plot that couldn't have taken place if the film's hero was thinking with anything other than his dick, manages to take us into some truly twisted narrative corners this time around. Sexy Jesus in his underpants, tomato juice, and St. Joseph stacking scaffolding: in short, once again a terribly funny and daring genre film, but one that is hard to take seriously because of the almost distilled misanotropy that blocks any attempt to relate to the characters.
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