Turkish Delight
Turkish Delight

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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 ma... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Turkish Delight:

Monique van de Ven
Rutger Hauer
Tonny Huurdeman
Wim van den Brink
Hans Boskamp
Dolf de Vries

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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).

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Reel Film Reviews - 5/10 by David Nusair...a wisp of a movie that suffers from an almost total dearth of memorable elements...
User Review - 10/10 by Vanessa LThe Dutchest movie ever made. Paul Verhoeven, Jan de Bond, Rudger Hauwer and Monique van der Ven
User Review - 10/10 by Christopher SA raw and powerful piece of work that is as exhilarating as it is unsettling. Rutger Hauer and Monique van de Ven lose themselves into their roles with a reckless abandon masterfully accentuated through the fluid camerawork, razor-sharp editing, and deft touches of bizarre dark humor. One of Verhoeven's crowning achievements, a masterpiece.
User Review - 10/10 by TonyPolitoWow! A gorgeous and moving coming-of-age epic. And that's just not me talking. According to online sources, "Turkish Delight" was voted by the Dutch as their favorite film of the 20th Century. There's far more here for the viewer than its ubiquitous full frontal content. A starving artist (Hauer) fantasizes revenge upon his lost love (Van de Ven) & pursues meaningless trysts, demeaning his partners. The romance that has led Hauer to this low point is then retold in such detail that the viewer is totally immersed within it. Then - when the two meet again comes his redemption - and yet that meeting also brings an even greater sadness. And what a climax when the viewer finally sees the scene from whence the film's title is drawn. The result is a transfixing coming-of-age character study, where Hauer slowly morphs from immature, socially awkward and emotionally shallow into an individual who truly understands the emotion and responsibilities of compassion & love, changed forever by the spell that Van de Ven's innocence and desire cast over him. And in 'real-life" her performance cast such a spell, a performance so compelling, that the film's cinematographer wed the 19-year-old actress at its completion. The viewer is also rewarded with a number of extraordinary screen compositions along the journey; one striking example is Van de Ven as a posed nude across red satin sheets & surrounded by candles - and doppelled in the tilted mirror over their bed. RECOMMENDATION: Though it is nearly impossible to find the DVD, "Turkish Delight" is a dramatic, erotic romance not to be missed.
User Review - 10/10 by John TThis is the 1973 movie (based on the novel written by Jan Wolkers) that changed the Dutch society forever...
User Review - 10/10 by Brian EIf love is a drug, then Paul Verhoeven's 1973 'Turkish Delight' is grandly an overdose. It's a compassionate bravura which destroyed me upon viewing, with little resemblance to Verhoeven's American box office successes ('Robocop', 'Basic Instinct', 'Total Recall'... just to name a few). The film starts begins in a self-destructive platform, like a violent blast continued from the gun of Bertolucci's 'Last Tango in Paris' - a young, miserable, and naked Rutger Hauer in the body of a starving artist Eric Vonk, laying alone in an isolated, disintegrating studio apartment accompanied by a pig-sty and moldy, neglected foods. After a shockingly violent dream of brutally murdering the girl he loved, he recalls what brought him to this state; he recalls Olga - the young, wildly beautiful, wildly sexual and curious girl he fell in love with by chance - the one girl to satisfy his continuing lustful free-spirit. Hurtling the obstacles of real life - struggling to find money, struggling to keep Olga's hypochondriac thoughts away (she constantly thinks she's an heiress to cancer, as cancer played a role in claiming her father's life, as well as her mother's left breast), and Olga's parents who frankly despise Eric - they constantly resort to moments of wild, untamed sex, another ode to 'Last Tango in Paris'. Reality sets in with a heavy hand and a heavy price, as Olga begins to see past the sex, wanting something more material and more tangible in her love life, spiraling Eric downward fast, only to discover they really just needed the time to breathe. The film soon ends in tragedy, perhaps as one giant test to Eric, forcing him to shape up and mature further, rather than keep at his carefree, unrestrained behavior. 'Turkish Delight' is actually one of the most depressing, nihilistic depictions of romance ever filmed - I know so as my heart sank into my stomach when the ride was said and done. The continuity of timeless, space-less pillow talk played as a more explicit relative of Jean-Luc Godard's 'Breathless', but with less pop-culture worship. The odd sexual behavior, though considerably awkward and daringly personal, was more organic and realistic than most bedroom depictions - and carries the same beatnik torch passed by almost-forgotten European film poets as Andrzej Zulawski and Marco Ferreri concerning aimlessly daring love pursuit of violent, destructive youth, and a rude, yet justified rejection of the Bourgeois (though this film is far superior to anything I've seen from Zulawski or Ferreri). The performances from Rutger Hauer and Monique Van de Ven are just as daring as the film's subject matter - full of life and expression, and a rapid-fire sudden change of emotions. A love story can hold such devastating power - to where you may either find yourself multiplying your love for someone times ten, or disintegrate dangerously further in isolation and hatred for the potential opportunity of love. 'Turkish Delight' is the absolute bearer of this power.
User Review - 10/10 by Charlo Pviolence , sexe , amour ,émotion, fantasme et perte l'un des plus beaux du maître hollandais.
User Review - 10/10 by Codie EOne of the best films ever made about doomed relationships. The film works so well because its lead characters are just 'children', we can never take their romance too seriously but at the same time completely buy the state they get themselves into. This is helped by Rutger Hauer and Monique Van De Ven's brilliant and fearless performances, always willing to go with Paul Verhoeven's liberal sensibilities, sexual obsessions and at times poor taste, but the film is all the better for it.
User Review - 10/10 by John MOne of the greatest dramas I've ever seen. It's totally insane, but is one of the best produced movies ever. I'd recommend it to anyone mature enough to handle it.
User Review - 10/10 by Clément GIf you were just dumped, because you have zero regard for the sanity of others, keep it going by watching this.

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