Paul Verhoeven – De worstelaar AKA The Wrestler (1970)

Synopsis: A man fools around with the wife of a wrestler.

IMDB Review:

Funny early Verhoeven short – preparatory to features
Author: ([email protected]) from east coast usa
3 January 2004

This 20 minute movie was the last of Verhoeven’s shorts. It has the same super-ugly look (clashing, bleary colors, aggressively non-attractive people and compositions) that is characteristic of his early features, and the same raunchy bitterly ironic humor too. Made in 1970 – it is a typical (except anyone as talented as Verhoeven is never typical) example of swinging 60s sexual morality. Well paced, nicely amoral and with Verhoeven closet-fascist (I share his views entirely) disgust with the grossness and worthlessness of the age in which we live palpable beneath the surface. Wickedly, deadpan-ironic and confrontational as only Paul Verhoeven can be. All in all – it is a Paul Verhoeven picture and better in some ways than his early features – certainly better than the one about the Amsterdam hooker.

I’d sure love to see his other shorts – especially the one on Mussart and the Dutch Marines.

http://nitroflare.com/view/FF68866BDABC552/De_worstelaar.1970.DVDRIP-CG.avi
http://nitroflare.com/view/B11771D0A9643E9/De_worstelaar.1970.DVDRIP-CG.srt

Language(s):Dutch
Subtitles:English