A Catholic alcoholic homosexual novelist, who happens to have the same name as the novelist on whose novel this film was based, can no longer tell the difference between his fantasies and his realities. And little wonder! The clearly identifiable fantasy scenes allow director Paul Verhoeven to throw in a strangulation, a dangling eyeball or two, a castration by barber's scissors, a piece of beefcake in red swimming trunks nailed to a cross, and so on. Reality, with its high incidence of coincidence, of premonition-come-true, of Samson-and-Delilah symbols and Madonna-and-Child symbols, is hardly less bizarre. Or less repellent. With Jeroen Krabbé and Renée Soutendijk. (1983) — Duncan Shepherd
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