TURKISH DELIGHT

TURKISH DELIGHT, 1973
Netherlands | 35mm, Color, 112’ | Dutch, English
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Actors: Monique van de Ven, Rutger Hauer, Tonny Huurdeman

Turkish Delight is a sometimes romantic, sometimes erotic but always clever and funny story of an extraordinary couple who are madly and tempestuously in love with one another. Verhoeven’s second foray into feature films was inspired by a Jan Wolkers’ novel by the same name and while its stormy romance might seem to be a misalliance of Love Story and Rembrandt’s art, it is clearly a product of this director’s offbeat style.