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...Dubal, a first-year student in the audience, of his classes. “But we did have many great dissections.” While most of the show was done in good fun, med student Regan W.J. Bergmark’s mousy portrayal of anatomy professor Trudy Van Houten, while considered truthful “to the T” by the show’s co-director Paulvalery Roulette, may have crossed the line, instigating grumbles from the audience. According to co-producer Yoni E. Shoag, there have been instances in the past where students have...
RALPH R. VAN HOUTEN, LIMA...
...prude, but when a pretty Jewish girl is steeling herself to seduce an SS commandant, I don’t need to see her give a quickie to a fellow resistance member after waxing her pubic hair. The private parts Verhoeven willingly parades around onscreen belong to Carice van Houten, who plays Rachel Steinn, alias Ellis de Vries, a dazzling on-the-lam Jew recruited to spy for the resistance. An able temptress and a contemplative soul, she adopts a dour disposition as willingly as she strips for her assigned Nazi boytoy Ludwig Müntze. Verhoeven, who co-wrote...
...film tells the story of a young Jewish woman named Rachel Steinn (Carice van Houten) whose resistance name is Ellis de Vries. After seeing her family betrayed and butchered as they attempt to flee Holland, she joins the underground and is asked to seduce the local Gestapo Leader (Sebastian Koch, lately of The Lives of Others). Soon she's planting a microphone in his office - and falling authentically in love with this civilized, slightly depressive man, who fastidiously ignores what's going on in the torture chambers beneath his headquarters...
...hand, we do learn that he has suffered a personal tragedy that may have turned him against noxious belief, and remember that we are seeing him through Ellis's bedazzled eyes and curiously innocent nature. We are always aware that she is not an ideologically driven woman. In van Houten's very brave performance - it's hard to think of an actress who has ever been so naked, literally and metaphorically, so often in pursuit of a characterization - she's all heart, instinct and good nature. Above all, she is calmly acceptant of her circumstances. This is what...