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By Jurgen Fauth & Marcy Dermansky, About.com Guides to Independent Film

Review: Black Book

Monday April 2, 2007

When the director of Showgirls, Basic Instinct, and Robocop takes on a story that begins like The Diary of Anne Frank, you can bet good money that the heroine is going to shoot and screw her way out of trouble until she finally makes it to a kibbutz. Black Book, which did big business in Holland and arrives in the U.S. with the cachet of an acclaimed foreign film about the Holocaust, would be plain-old kitsch if it didn't cash in on the suffering of millions to get its low-brow action-adventure kicks. Paul Verhoeven's Black Book opens on Wednesday. Read Jürgen's review.

Comments

April 11, 2007 at 9:09 am
(1) Carla Huskamp says:

Bad Movie? Absolutely.
Scandinavian Film? No way, it’s Dutch

April 11, 2007 at 11:58 am
(2) Jurgen says:

Carla, you’re right, of course. The URL says “Scandinavia,” but the category is really called “Scandinavia and Northern Europe.” It’s not perfect, but it’s really nothing more than a kink in our filing system. We do know there are no fjords in Holland!

October 22, 2009 at 9:30 am
(3) Alex91 says:

And concepts alternative to those we learn in the first person may enable us to arrive at a kind of understanding even of our own experience which is denied us by the very ease of description and lack of distance that subjective concepts afford. ,

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