You won't be disappointed!

Very disappointed :(

Brilliant and touching

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

Paul Verhoeven is known as provocative filmmaker who likes to create daring visual images. He's mostly known by his Hollywood films with unsteady quality. 'Turkish Delight' was Verhoevens first hit in Netherlands and was voted as best Dutch film of the century. With the very first minutes Verhoeven manages to disturb the viewer and unsuspecting viewer can even start to think - what I just got myself into? Very bold depiction of sex and sexuality doesn't seem forced and even the small bursts of intense violence don't stand out from the rest of the film as some bright (or dark) spots.'Turkish Delight' is heartwarming and heartbreaking love story between free spirited Olga (Monique van de Ven) and care free sculptor Eric (Rutger Hauer). Both main stars have such a chemistry between them that nothing seems to forced. Their relationship seems as natural as sunshine in Florida (or rain in London).Very few directors are capable of making such warm films with provocative aplomb and Verhoeven is master at this game.

From director Paul Verhoeven (The Fourth Man, Total Recall, Basic Instinct), before he directed the atrocious Showgirls, which was chock-a-block with sex and nudity, in his home country of the Netherlands he made this film with similar high content, but of course this is much better, and was featured in the book 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die. Basically Eric Vonk (Rutger Hauer) is a highly talented sculptor, and he has a habit for picking up random women from the streets and having sex with them at his studio, but it is clear that he is only doing this to try and get over the breakup from Olga Stapels (Monique Van De Ven), and through flashback we see him recall his relationship with her. Eric was trying to hitch a ride, and Olga picked him up as a hitchhiker, and immediately they connect sexually and spiritually, and after somewhat of a short time they start living together and marry, this relationship is strongly disapproved by Olga's mother (Tonny Huurdeman) because she does not like his sculpting bringing in only occasional commission. The couple still get married despite these opinions, and he is accepting by her family, but after having many adventures together she is starting to act strangely, and she is seen at a family party with a businessman flirting, so the couple have strong argument until he slaps her and she leaves him. Eric in anger trashes his studio, ruining anything that reminds him of Olga, and this is when the film comes out of flashback to present day, he still obsesses about his wife but they do occasionally see each other, each time with her acting more and more outrageously, often hanging around with other men, and the family are not allowing him to visit her until he will agree to end the marriage and divorce her. Eventually he does confirm the divorce, and she quickly marries an American businessman, but this relationship does not last that long as it fast goes wrong, and he returns to Holland, and she is once again becoming flamboyant with her dress sense, but she is losing logic. Eric meets her, they talk a little and she collapses and is taken to hospital, she is diagnosed with a brain tumour which means that she is to go into surgery, but unfortunately not all of the intervention could remove the fatal problem, so she will definitely die. All Eric can do for Olga is spend whatever time they have left together caring for her, and having refused for some time to eat he one day brings her some Turkish delight, this becomes the only thing she will eat as she worries her teeth will be broken by harder food, and in the end she does indeed tragically die. Also starring Wim Van Den Brink as Olga's father, Hans Boskamp as Winkelchef, Dolf De Vries as Paul and Manfred De Graaf as Henny. Hauer, before becoming well known for dark and villainous roles, proves a good choice as the man with an obsession for sex and his art, and Van De Ven is also suitable as the beautiful who shares a passionate connection on and off with him, the film does mostly consist of the voyeuristic nudity and sensual sex scenes, in many situations, including bizarre and shocking moments during, but unlike Showgirls they work as part of the love story and are very interesting to watch unfold, it adds up to a marvellously inventive erotic drama. It was nominated the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. Very good!

While many consider this Paul Verhooven's "best", I consider it 'among his best' because there are others he did in his native country that moved me more than this one. BUt this one was good. Perhaps is because in the 1970's, every star crossed lovers in TV and film had very tragic endings to their relationships - and while this is another one, I liked the telling much better.Turks Fruit isn't as antiseptic as the American "Love Story" - this story is filmed as honestly as possible, showing you everything and anything that happened to this young couple of the early 70's and how the generation gap of the parent (not parents mind you!) really got in the way. This is more adult and you do follow the story of a gifted artist and his wanton lover - in the early 70's.I too had to laugh at the vomit scene - you'd never see that in American Cinema back then for such a love tale, and how 'bohemian' the female was - not the male. This was liberating for women during the women's liberation movement kinda thing. Rutger Hauer played his character of a gifted struggling 70's artist well - knowing what he wanted and how uncompromising he was to his art - but on the other hand would do what it took to support he and his wife.I had to find this film to remember it - it was shown on the Los Angeles based Z channel, but I didn't remember seeing it. It took sometime to find an old dubbed version and I think it was cut - but I still enjoyed this, even today. The two things that bothered me was at the end, where was Olga's mom? What really happened to her in America? (There's a scene with Olga getting examined and she says something like: "He hurt me" and the technician replies, "I know". Makes me think there was more to this - or was Olga just responding to the exam?) Funny thing though - I never knew the name of the candy I loved so much as a child -- until this movie, and so this did have quite an emotional impact for me as tragedy struck these two. And more tragic yet, the empty life that had to be lived after such a love and tragedy.

I am a Rutger Hauer fan. In this movie Rutger Hauer is very young. This is one of Paul Verhoeven's early films. It seems very dated but it still a good movie. This movie got nominated for Best Foreign Language Film. It should have one. It is similar to Basic Instinct for sexuality. This film is similar to Katie Tippel another Paul Verhoeven film. The first time I saw Rutger Hauer is was Batty from Blade Runner. Then I saw him in Split Second and just recently in Flesh + Blood. Flesh + Blood is Rutger Hauer's best film. I do not want to forget his other Dutch films Soldier of Orange and Spetters. Rutger Hauer never got nominated for an Oscar and I am surprised by that.