Maarten Spanjer Movies
- 1990
One of the colloquial terms in English for a successfully promiscuous young male is "swordsman." In this story, the amiable swordsman Peter (Peter Faber) leaves a swath of sexually satisfied women behind him, as he makes his way through the women of his acquaintance. However, his exploits become grist for the journalistic mill when a jealous former girlfriend gets on his case. She ruins his chances or real romance with a girl he is courting (Mariska van Kolck) by running a story about his amazing sexual prowess. However, true love eventually wins the day. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Peter Faber, Sylvia Millecam, (more)
Spetters further elaborates on the themes of sexual obsession previously probed in director Paul Verhoeven's Turkish Delight (1973). Hans Van Tongeren, Toon Agterberg and Maarten Spanjer play, respectively, Reen, Eve and Hans, a closely-knit group of teenage motorcycle lovers who idolize local cycling champion Witkamp (played by Rutger Hauer, the star of Delight). Unfortunately, the adolescents' attempts to rebel take a dark and brutal turn when Van Tongeren is permanently injured in a road accident and Agterberg is gang raped by a group of homosexuals. While the other two young men lust after Fientje (Renee Soutendjik), a promiscuous hashhouse waitress, Agterberg responds to the rape by coming out and taking Fientje's gay brother as a lover. Verhoeven is artistically and sexually graphic in juxtaposing "cycle love" with the friends' carnal interrelations. The title of Spetters is an indigenous triple-entendre -- it refers to the Dutch vernacular for "grease spatterings" (both the oily renderings left behind by the motorcycles commandeered by the film's central characters and the grease slung by Soutendjik), is a slang term for male ejaculate, and was frequently used in the seventies and eighties to refer to people who are sexually appealing ("That girl is a spetter.")
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Hans Van Tongeren, Renée Soutendijk, (more)
