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Bookmark this pageThe Fourth Man (1983)
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Verhoeven's last Dutch movie is a deliciously overripe male melodrama based on a novel by Gerard Reve and packed with ostentatious, tongue-in-cheek symbolism. Krabbé is entirely persuasive as a feverish, manic-depressive Catholic homosexual novelist (!) who beds a female fan though it's her fella he really fancies (in one sexy sacrilegious fantasy he imagines him crucified). Christine, proprietress of the Sphinx beauty parlour, washes his hair with Delilah shampoo, and it may be that she's dangerous - her track record with men leaves a lot to be desired. A hot, florid, outrageously funny film that nevertheless plays at a dreamy, trance-like pace, this earned Verhoeven his best ever notices - an anomaly he attributes to its slow, arty camera moves.Author: TCh
Cast & crew
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Producer: Rob Houwer
Cast: Jeroen Krabbé, Renée Soutendijk, Thom Hoffman, Dolf De Vries, Geert De Jong, Hans Veerman full cast
Genre(s): Thrillers
Duration: 102 mins
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