Rivette entende Verhoeven

Já é notí­cia velha, mas só li hoje: Jacques Rivette entende o trabalho de Paul Verhoeven, um dos meus diretores favoritos. Não sei bem quanto a Showgirls (preciso ver de novo), mas quanto a Starship Troopers Rivette acerta na mosca. É um filme espetacular.



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“I've seen [Starship Troopers] twice and I like it a lot, but I prefer Showgirls (1995), one of the great American films of the last few years. It's Verhoeven's best American film and his most personal. In Starship Troopers, he uses various effects to help everything go down smoothly, but he's totally exposed in Showgirls. It's the American film that's closest to his Dutch work. It has great sincerity, and the script is very honest, guileless. It's so obvious that it was written by Verhoeven himself rather than Mr. Eszterhas, who is nothing. And that actress is amazing! Like every Verhoeven film, it's very unpleasant: it's about surviving in a world populated by assholes, and that's his philosophy. Of all the recent American films that were set in Las Vegas, Showgirls was the only one that was real — take my word for it. I who have never set foot in the place!”



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