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Paul Verhoeven's first film doesn't really feel like one of his films. It's basically an over the top goofy 70s sex comedy. But there are still plenty of funny scenes and the film can be enjoyed if you're willing to accept it as a product of its time.
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Rated 3 out of 5 stars
02/16/23
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Paul Verhoeven's directorial debut, after a decade of making documentaries and working for Dutch television, he got into films when he and his screenwriter Gerard Soeteman adapted two books by Dutch author Albert Mol, Wat zien ik!? and Haar van Boven, for the big screen. It's a bawdy, naughty sex comedy, which predates the antics the British would do in the Confessions films a few years later. Set in Amsterdam's red light district, this tells the exploits and goings-on of two prostitutes, Greet (Ronnie Bierman) and Nel (Sylvia de Leur), who live in a house on the Prinsengracht. Greet entertains her clients by performing their most depraved sexual fantasies, from her dressing up like a witch, to S&M with one client dressed up as a cleaner and one doing a chicken role-play with feathers. Nel lives upstairs with Sjaak (Jules Hamel), who sponges off Nel's money, and they seem to fight all the time, and after one particularly violent fight. Greet decides to help Nel find another man, who they find in the timid Bob (Bernhard Droog), but Sjaak is having non of that. Right from his first film, Verhoeven was feet first in with sex, and it's been in just about every film he's made since then. But, he has a wicked sense of humour, and that's been in his films ever since too. For a low-budget film, it's well shot by Jan de Bont, who later became a director, with good colour and well framed shots. The best was to come from Verhoeven in the following years.
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Rated 4 out of 5 stars
02/05/23
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Inte Verhoevens bästa men spöar ändå de flesta av sexkomedierna som kom vid den här tiden.
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Rated 3 out of 5 stars
02/03/23
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Director Paul Verhoeven's feature debut is a raucous, ribald comedy strong on quirky (but also deep) characters, built around a shining central performance from Ronnie Bierman. Stylishly and energetically shot, for all its bawdy humor, an exceedingly charming film.
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Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars
01/28/23
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Ich mag die Filme von Paul Verhoeven eigentlich sehr gerne, bei diesem Frühwerk wollte der Funken allerdings nicht so recht überspringen. Der Film kann dem Erotikfilm, aber auch dem Drama oder der Komödie zugeordnet werden, eigentlich ein guter Mix doch hier wirkte alles ein wenig unausgegoren. Hin und wieder gibt es zwar ein paar ganz unterhaltsame Szenen, doch das Gesamtwerk hat auf mich einen eher schleppenden Eindruck gemacht. Dafür haben mir die beiden Hauptdarstellerinnen gefallen. Abschließend kann ich sagen, dass "Was sehe ich...! Was sehe ich...!" kein Film ist, den man unbedingt gesehen haben muss, schlecht ist er allerdings auch nicht.
2,5/5
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Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars
02/18/23
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Paul Verhoeven's first movie is an extremely funny dark comedy that shows great promise for a director about to discover how good he is at satire. Unlikely protagonists culled from Amsterdam's Red Light District populate the cast, and Verhoeven and co. guide their characters from sex-farce to relationship drama with just the right mixture of honesty and cynicism.
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Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars
02/27/23
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