- Clarice van Houten, Zwartboek(Black Book), Netherlands-Germany-UK-Belgium, UK, 2006. “I have to do something I can believe in again, something important,” declared Dutch director Paul Verhoeven, “after Hollow Manwhich I should have let fall apart.” Among the other Dutch actresses he saw for the WWII Resistance heroine, Jewish Rachel Stein, hiding out as chanteuse Ellis de Vries, were a Reuten, Esmée de la Bretonière, Halina Reijn, Angela Schijf and Katja Schuurman. “Not a dull second,” said Rolling Stone critic Peter Travers. “Verhoeven is back, baby, and he’s got his mojo working.”
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