Business Is Business (Wat zien ik) (1971)

MOVIE DIARY - MARCH 2022 (19 movies items)

" My review : https://www.listal.com/viewentry/23839675."

“Verhoeven's first film, successful test! Light. Carefree. Caustic. Vaudevillesque. A damn endearing funny farce.” read more

Movies watched in 2019 (100 movies items)

"15.6. MSFF"

An average movie

“In 2016, Paul Verhoeven will finally make a come-back with the only 2nd movie he managed to make during the last 16 years and it will be a French steamy thriller which sounds quite promising. Anyway, I have been following the Dutch master for many years and since I always had a weak spot for his work, I was quite eager to check his directorial debut. Well, to honest, even though it was not bad, I thought this movie was actually fairly disappointing. In fact, Verhoeven himself was not really excited about this project and he wanted to make instead an adaptation of a major Dutch literary work but it was his longtime partner Gerard Soeteman, the writer on his movie, who convinced him to first direct this one which was slightly less ambitious. Eventually, since this movie was a success, they w” read more