Although he began making movies in his native Netherlands in the late 1970s, his move to the Hollywood mainstream maintained the same taste-and boundary-pushing flavour, from Basic Instinct's notorious interrogation scene to the vulgarity of the maligned Showgirls (1995), all the way up to his recent drama about sexual consent, Elle (2017). After all, Verhoeven helped define the 90s erotic thriller, and has been a filmmaker interested in outré sexuality from the word go. I'm always amazed people are shocked by sex in movies.'įor some film critics, who have been lamenting what they perceive to be Hollywood's new Puritanism for some time, hearing this from Verhoeven seemed to feel like vindication. Sexuality is the most essential element of nature. I think there's a misunderstanding about sexuality in the United States. Asked why films like his 1992 erotic thriller Basic Instinct weren't being made in Hollywood anymore, he said, 'There's been a general shift towards Puritanism. This summer, ahead of his movie Benedetta premiering at the Cannes Film Festival, veteran filmmaker Paul Verhoeven did an interview with Variety.

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