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After his highly successful Hollywood career, Paul Verhoeven
returns to the Netherlands and helms a more personal epic.
Truth-based, Black Book, set in Holland during the final
months of the Second World War portrays Rachel Stein, a
beautiful and independent young Jewish woman who joins the
Resistance and sets out on a dangerous mission to infiltrate
the upper echelons of the Gestapo in order to find out who
has betrayed her family. Nothing so banal as simple heroes
or villains in this fast-paced, densely plotted movie: although
there's little out-and-out comedy, there's still a sense
that Verhoeven enjoys keeping us on our toes while occasionally
letting the action rip.
"It’s gripping
stuff and deeply enjoyable." - Time Out
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