Rutger Hauer, Monique van de Ven and a bottle of champagne
I just got this weird all-Dutch chain reaction of culty associations;
- There was this Dutch top-culty movie Turks Fruit from 1973
- after a book from famous Dutch writer/artist Jan Wolkers
- made by famous Dutch director Paul 'Basic Instinct' Verhoeven
- with Rutger 'Blade Runner' Houwer as the artist-stud
- and Busty Dutch Celeb Monique van de Ven (right) as Olga Stapels
[Of course, I copy-pasted this next text. So don't blame me when it sounds like an add. I edited it a bit and it is now to-the-point]
Turks Fruit [1973] has recently been voted as Best Dutch Movie Ever. I can see why, "Turkish Fruits" is the candy that he brings her on a hospital visit. The movie is a delicious treat and perfectly mixes a heavy love story with dramatic and realistic and sexy moments that life is filled with.
It is a fine example of good story-telling. The movie was made from a book of the famous Dutch writer Jan Wolkers. Rutger Hauer, Monique van de Ven and Dolf de Vries really are some fine actors. Paul Verhoeven shows with this movie that he also is a great actor director. It marked the real big breakthrough for both Rutger and Monique and also for Paul himself.
The movie is filled with some typical and subtle humor which I really enjoyed. Some of the characters might seem a bit odd but I can assure you that all of the characters are very realistic and the softish kinks are not uncommon in the Netherlands.
The movie is really daring, especially for its time [1973] and is not afraid to show some explicit sex scenes. All of it is done with lots of wit and style so the movie never becomes offensive, it all serves some purpose, so it never really shocks the viewers. Verhoeven is a master in this. This is the first Verhoeven movie were he uses the same style which he still puts in his movies these days. The first typically, recognizable Verhoeven movie you can say.
The soundtrack was composed by Rogier van Otterloo who later also worked on the famous Dutch WWII "Soldaat van Oranje" movie [1977] also with Rutger Hauer and Paul Verhoeven.
This was just an all too long intro to Andre Rieu, another great Dutch artist who makes classic music popular with his big orchestra. There was a scene in the "Turks Fruit" movie where the father of Olga is dying from cancer and enjoys the the Radetzky Marsch for the last time.
The links for the "Turks Fruit" movie are here;
Tu.Fruit.part1
Tu.Fruit.part2
Tu.Fruit.part3
Tu.Fruit.part4
Tu.Fruit.part5
Tu.Fruit.part6
Tu.Fruit.part7
Tu.Fruit.part8
Tu.Fruit.part8
Enjoy
