Stunning beautician Renée Soutendijk catches the eye (and other body parts) of fatalistic novelist Jeroen Krabbé even though he prefers men. His imagination begins to run wild after he learns that she is a widow—three times over. With his third consecutive U.S. art-house hit, Verhoeven won the Best Foreign Film award from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and confirmed his reputation for mischievous daring and shameless titillation.

In Dutch with English subtitles