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2007
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In the darkest days of World War II, Jewish fugitives attempt to escape occupied Holland – only to face a Nazi ambush. Rachel Stein (Carice van Houten) alone survives the attack and joins the Dutch Resistance to avenge her family. She soon confronts the ultimate test: she must infiltrate German headquarters by tempting Captain Ludwig Mÿntze (Sebastian Hoch). In the heat of passion, he uncovers her duplicity...but keeps her secret. Then Rachel's espionage reveals that a murderous traitor lurks within Resistance ranks. Unable to fully trust anyone, Rachel navigates a minefield of deception and becomes an enemy to both sides. Epic, passionate, breathtaking, Black Book relates an untold story of World War II where the distinctions between good and evil become blurred by the complexities of human nature.
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© 2006, 2007 Film & Entertainment VIP Medienfonds 4 GmbH & Co. KG. All Rights Reserved.
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Lew Irwin
Some critics, it seems, don't know what to make of Basic Instinct director Paul Verhoeven's latest film, the World War II drama Black Book. Manohla Dargis in the New York Times describes it as "supremely vulgar" and notes that it "works only if you take it for the pulpiest of fiction." That's precisely the way Glenn Whipp perceives it, as he writes in the Los Angeles Daily News that it's an "exhilarating potboiler that is thrilling, erotic and constant in its desire to upend viewers' expectations." Kenneth Turan in the Los Angeles Times remarks that the film is full of "dizzying contradictions." It is, he says, "as subversive as it is traditional, both enamored of conventional notions of heroism and frankly contemptuous of them." And while John Anderson of Newsday describes it as "a strange movie," he comments that its release "marks a red-letter day ... for fans of sophisticated, high-tension melodramas, war movies and sexy adult thrillers."
Reviewed by: melany1 on 9/27/2007 3:41:00 PM
Lew Irwin
Some critics, it seems, don't know what to make of Basic Instinct director Paul Verhoeven's latest film, the World War II drama Black Book. Manohla Dargis in the New York Times describes it as "supremely vulgar" and notes that it "works only if you take it for the pulpiest of fiction." That's precisely the way Glenn Whipp perceives it, as he writes in the Los Angeles Daily News that it's an "exhilarating potboiler that is thrilling, erotic and constant in its desire to upend viewers' expectations." Kenneth Turan in the Los Angeles Times remarks that the film is full of "dizzying contradictions." It is, he says, "as subversive as it is traditional, both enamored of conventional notions of heroism and frankly contemptuous of them." And while John Anderson of Newsday describes it as "a strange movie," he comments that its release "marks a red-letter day ... for fans of sophisticated, high-tension melodramas, war movies and sexy adult thrillers."
Reviewed by: melany1 on 9/27/2007 3:41:00 PM
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Reviewed by: melany1 on 9/27/2007 3:41:00 PM
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