After RoboCop, Paul Verhoeven directed a Philip K. Dick’s adaptation involving mental trips to other planets and “three boobed ladies”. Schwarzenegger and Sharon Stone star in one of the most iconic action films of the early nineties.
Secção: Retrospectivas | Retrospectives
A seamstress life is quiet until the day she receives a hundred-franc banknote. The anonymous sender renews his gift every day.
In this part romantic drama part dark thriller, Vincent Macaigne is a passé musician that decides to come to Tonnerre, in Burgundy, to spend some time with his father. There he meets Mélodie and love seems to be in the air.
After 15 years in USA, Paul Verhoeven returns to his Netherlands to direct a film about Dutch Resistance during WW II. Rachel, a Jewish woman, after being rescued by a Resistance group is asked to become a spy and seduce an SS official.
Vincent Macaigne is the driving force of a transatlantic love, shot in the streets of New York City, that refuses to die.
In 2197 humans travel in space and colonize other planets. In one of these trips they encounter an arachnid shaped alien species that aims to extinguish humanity. Paul Verhoeven’s take on an excessive militarist vision of the world.
In a reference to Fellini’s 8 ½, Verhoeven consider this as his 14 ½ film. Writing only half the story, this is the result of an experience that gathered multiple ideas from various participants in a Dutch film-project competition.
Paul Verhoeven’s second feature is still today the most successful film in Dutch cinema history. Told in flashback and shot with a hand-held camera, it follows the romance between a womanizer sculptor (Rutger Hauer) and a beautiful young girl.
Three dirt-bike motorcycle amateur racers try to impress the world champion Gerrit Witkamp. At the same time they fall in love with the same woman, a hotdog seller. A film that anticipated some of the later critics to Showgirls.
Un monde sans femmes is about a lonely man who tastes the freshness of a summer love.
Paul Verhoeven’s first big success in Hollywood is also one of the best super hero films of all time. After being killed by a street gang, the body of the policeman Alex Murphy is reconstructed within a steel shell.
Holland receives, with a mix of surprise and resistance, the first news about the Nazi regime. This films follows a group of Dutch students and their different involvements of resistance or collaboration during the World War II .
After Basic Instinct, Paul Verhoeven decided to raise the bar. Showgirls tells the daring story of Nomi Malone’s ascension from stripper to respected dancer. With the film happened the same: from failure then to cult status today.
The two friends in Moonlight Lover are going to change their life today.
Niets bijzonders was mainly improvised in the manner of nouvelle vague: inspired by a William Faulkner quote the films has a jazz like atmosphere.
A man waits for a date in a sauna in Les lézards.
Louis Garrel’s first feature film is a romantic comedy co-written by Christophe Honoré. Vincent Macaigne plays a shy actor who asks an extrovert friend to help him seduce Mona, a young girl that just got out of prison.
Sunday Lunch is an unerring animation narrated by Vincent Macaigne.