ComingSoon can exclusively debut the trailer for IndiePix Unlimited’s Controversial Classics: Dutch Cinema.
On August 16, 2024, IndiePix Unlimited will premiere five new movies on the SVOD platform. IndiePix Unlimited has unveiled a trailer for the upcoming films, all of which are considered to be some of the most successful “Dutch sex wave” movies.
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Check out the exclusive Controversial Classics: Dutch Cinema trailer below (watch more trailers and clips):
“While the names Pim de la Parra and Wim Verstappen may be unfamiliar to mainstream movie buffs, the duo put Dutch cinema on the map with the launch of Scorpio Films in 1966,” the official synopsis reads. “Over the next decade, they kick-started the ‘Dutch Sex Wave’ (aka the Golden Age of Dutch cinema) with films that combined artistic freedom, sexual liberation, and exploitation with commercial success. This August, streaming subscription service IndiePix Unlimited pays homage to these salacious, phenomenally popular films with the launch of Controversial Classics: Dutch Cinema, featuring the premieres of five taboo classics guaranteed to titillate.”
What movies are included in IndiePix Unlimited’s Controversial Classics: Dutch Cinema?
The five movies premiering on IndiePix Unlimited as part of Controversial Classics: Dutch Cinema are 1969’s Obsessions, 1971’s Blue Movie, 1973’s Frank & Eva, 1975’s My Nights With Susan, Sandra, Olga & Julie, and 1977’s The Debut.
Obsessions (1969)
Obsessions (aka A Hole in the Wall) was directed by Dutch artsploitation auteur Pim de la Parra and co-produced by long-time collaborator Wim Verstrappen (BLUE MOVIE). This gritty, psychedelic Hitchcockian mystery, which is notable for being the first Dutch film shot in English-language, starts in a savagely brutal fashion. When a bloody painting of Vincent van Gogh falls from a wall and exposes a makeshift peephole, student protagonist Nils Janssen (played by the film’s German co-producer Dieter Geissler) becomes an unwitting witness to a gruesome sex crime next door. (90 mins)
Blue Movie (1971)
After five years in prison, an ex-con returns to a society where total sexual freedom is now the norm. Michael (Frank & Eva’s Hugo Metsers) yearns for sex, and becomes fascinated by the amorous life of an attractive woman next door (Business is Business’ Carry Tefsen), eventually organizing a series of sordid orgies with her and the neighbors. Blue Movie was the most controversial and talked about Dutch film upon theatrical release – a sensation that brought millions of visitors to cinemas. Produced by Pim de la Parra (Frank & Eva, Obsessions), and directed by his partner Wim Verstappen, Blue Movie was a breakthrough commercial hit for their company Scorpio Films, and also featuring cinematography by Jan De Bont (Turkish Delight, Private Lessons, Basic Instinct) – now see for yourself what all the commotion was about! (88 mins)
Frank & Eva (1973)
Frank (Blue Movie’s Hugo Metsers) and Eva (The Lift’s Willeke van Ammelrooy) cannot live with or without each other. In the liberal 1970s, Frank sleeps with every woman he can get. Eva, meanwhile, is looking for more security and wants to start a family. Frank’s behavior frustrates her so much that she starts an affair with their mutual friend. This social drama offers a view on relationships not much different than today. For Sylvia Kristel (her debut prior to Emmanuelle), a special role was written after she said to Pim de la Parra, “Why won’t you discover me? I’m the best.” (97 mins)
My Nights With Susan, Sandra, Olga & Julie (1975)
Susan (Frank & Eva’s Willeke Van Ammelrooy) lives in an idyllic farmhouse, along with the sex-loving youngsters, Sandra, Olga, and Julie and the unstable voyeur Albert. A number of killings take place by the sex vampires, the allegations however, go out to Piet (Flodder’s Nelly Frijda), the crazy woman on the other side of the ditch. A young craftsman, Anton (Hans van der Gragt), visits and gets surprised by the dangerous ladies. My Nights With Susan, Sandra, Olga & Julie was the last of Scorpio’s “Dutch Sex Wave” productions, directed by auteur filmmaker Pim de la Parra, masterfully shot in Techniscope by Marc Felperlaan (The Lift, The Northeners), featuring the last score by composer Elisabeth Lutyens (known for Hammer films and Amicus Productions), and with a screenplay co-credited to Harry Kumel (Daughters of Darkness). Stay in and have a night out with these ladies of seduction! (84 mins)
The Debut (1977)
This forbidden-love story was the first full-length feature from pioneering filmmaker Nouchka van Brakel. Following the theme of Stanley Kubrick’s Lolita (1962) and Michael Powell’s Age of Consent (1969), only this time told from a female perspective, van Brakel’s The Debut (1977) tells the delicate story of the impossible love between a teenage girl and a middle-aged married man. Based on the controversial novel by Hester Albach, The Debut is a subversive comedy-drama and the first commercially successful Dutch theatrical film directed by a woman. (95 minutes)
