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Sensualist (The)

Country: The Netherlands, Language: Dutch, 112 mins

Original Title

Turks Fruit ...aka Turkish Delight
  • Director: Paul Verhoeven
  • Writer: Gerard Soeteman; Jan Wolkers
  • Producer: Rob Houwer

CGiii Comment

Regarded by some as the best Dutch movie ever made...

Is it worthy of such a compliment? No...well, perhaps, in the 70s.

Early Verhoeven...and his version (grittier) of Lovestory...

It's worth seeing...Hauer can act.

A significant film for the time and place.


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The(ir) Blurb...

Sort of a cross between Love Story (1970) and an earthy Rembrandt painting, this movie stars Rutger Hauer as gifted Dutch sculptor Eric, who has a stormy, erotic, and star-crossed romance with a beautiful young girl. The story follows the arc of their relationship and his interaction with her family. Told in flashback form, initially, Eric is seen as a libertine lothario collector, taking trophies from his sexual conquests and pasting them in a book. He sees a sculpture he made of his lost lover and goes into a flashback of his relationship with his wife. He meets the girl, falls in love with and marries her, and we meet her parents: a charming, well meaning, bumbling father, and his shrew of a wife, who's convinced Eric is too much of a bohemian to make a good mate for her daughter. Eventually, the petty jealousies, the sexual hijinks, and the climactic vomit scene prove to be too much for the marriage, and Eric and his lady separate. Flash forward several months, and Eric finds the girl back in The Netherlands after an American sojourn. Their reunion is short lived. The somewhat melodramatic ending mirrors Love Story (1970).

Cast & Characters

Monique van de Ven as Olga Stapels;
Rutger Hauer as Eric Vonk, the sculptor;
Tonny Huurdeman as Olga's mother;
Wim van den Brink as Olga's father;
Hans Boskamp as Winkelchef;
Dolf de Vries as Paul;
Manfred de Graaf as Henny;
Dick Scheffer as Accountant;
Marjol Flore as Tineke;
Bert Dijkstra as Civil servant