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Mar 8, 2022 · Flesh & Blood was Verhoeven’s first English-language film and was somewhat butchered for its US release with multiple trims to scenes involving sex and violence, but a director’s cut was...
One of the last movies you'd catch me watching would be a medieval-based swashbuckler, but this one is directed by Paul Verhoeven and stars Rutger Hauer, so I thought why not? This also marks Verhoeven's first ever English-language film, made only a good 2 years before he gave us RoboCop.
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Jun 22, 2017 · Flesh + Blood ’s cheerful mockery of man’s supposedly nobler pursuits is trademark Verhoeven, 12 and its vivid layer of mud, grime and bodily fluid renders the film a disreputable ancestor to Aleksei German’s Hard to be a God (2013).
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Reviewed by: Jennie Kermode. Italy, 1501. Rome was undergoing the Renaissance and producing some of its greatest art, but elsewhere the country was barbarous. Bands of mercenaries roamed the countryside, trading in violence, making deals with ambitious noblemen and breaking them just as quickly.
May 27, 2013 · Flesh and Blood (1985) is neither high art nor Paul Verhoeven’s best film, but it does contain flashes of genuine magic and an exceptional eye for the grime and grit of Medieval Italy. It also carries its fair share of star power thanks to the presence of Rutger Hauer, Verhoeven’s frequent co-conspirator, as mercenary soldier Martin.
Aug 10, 2018 · Set in a plague-ravaged Western Europe in 1501, it tells the story of a small band of mercenary peasants led by the enigmatic Martin (Rutger Hauer) who storm and reclaim a fortified castle for its...
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Genre: Historical, Adventure. Rating: 7 (from 2 votes) Review: The year is 1501, the place Western Europe, and the army of Arnolfini (Fernando Hilbeck), swelled by mercenaries in their ranks, is preparing to take back his stolen castle.
