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In Amsterdam, two prostitutes make a choice between love and work.In Amsterdam, two prostitutes make a choice between love and work.In Amsterdam, two prostitutes make a choice between love and work.
Diny de Neef
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- (as Dini de Neef)
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- TriviaThis wasn't director Paul Verhoeven's and screenwriter Gerard Soeteman's preferred project to work on. Verhoeven had hoped to do an adaptation of a major Dutch literary work, rather than an anecdotal novel about prostitution. However, Soeteman convinced him that they could make something acceptable out of it, and that they simply needed the work. Soeteman's instincts turned out correct, as the movie became a success, and it opened the way for their next project, the critically acclaimed and commercially successful literary adaptation Turkish Delight (1973).
- ConnectionsFeatured in Allemaal film: De magie van het witte doek (2007)
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The title says it all. 'Wat zien ik?' or 'What am I seeing?' was exactly the question I asked myself when I watched this film the other night. The film itself seems to be nothing more than an accumulation of 'strange' customers that a hooker in Amsterdam entertains and has a very sketch-like feel to it. Except that it isn't funny. For me it felt a bit like Monty Python's Meaning of life. Every customer was another short sketch that failed and everything in between was thinner than a piece of toilet paper. The reason I felt like that was because the characters, although the actors were OK, had no real depth and one just could not identify with any of them or with their actions. A bad effort from Verhoeven, which I guess nobody will enjoy much. Luckily he made better films later on.
4 out of 10
4 out of 10
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