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| Orion Pictures | Release Date: August 30, 1985 |
Starring:
Brion James, Fernando Hilbeck, Jack Thompson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, John Dennis Johnston, Ronald Lacey, Rutger Hauer, Simón Andreu, Susan Tyrrell, Tom Burlinson
Summary:
In medieval Europe, a young girl from a noble family is obsessed with her captors--commoners.
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Though Flesh + Blood tells a terrific story, written by Verhoeven with his longtime collaborator Gerard Soeteman, the presentation is rough, and not just because the film is packed with gore and rape. Verhoeven doesn't believe in tasteful framing that implies nudity; he prefers the bare-assed variety, the kind that makes the body's frailty plain.
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In the end, Verhoeven’s greatest irony, and the often pedestrian narrative’s most brilliant stroke, isn’t to decide in favor or against Martin. He’s of a piece with his nature, and he leaves the story as he entered it: unchanged and unbowed by the carnage he’s both witness to and agent of
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A medieval adventure-love saga in which all the cliches have been turned inside out. Instead of chivalry, the 1985 movie focuses on swinishness and brutality. Instead of love it offers lust and lechery; instead of heroism, pillage and murder. The "instead-ofs" go on and on, leaving us no one to root for and everything and everybody finally a turn-off. [10 July 1988, p.TV2]
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