On DVD: Black Book (Zwartboek)
I really loved this movie when I caught it in the cinema early this year, it just came out on DVD and tonight I watched it. The story is a tale of survival of a young, resourceful Jewish woman in Holland during German occupation in WW2.
The plot is a little prepostorious in places with coincidences left, right and centre. Suspend your belief and leave the grey realism of modern movies at the door, because Black Book is an old-fashioned spy actioner. It’s made the way you expect from Verhoeven: tight pacing, double-backing plots and explosions.
Don’t let the subtitles scare you. Black Book has dialogue in Dutch, German, Yiddish and English. It has a 18 cert for trademark Verhoeven violence and some nudity. Sebastian Koch from the Oscar winning The Lives Of Others starts along with Dutch newcomer (and heavily tipped Bond girl to be) Carice Van Houten.