128 mins |
Rated
R16 (Violence & sex scenes)
Directed by Paul Verhoeven
Starring Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tom Burlinson, Susan Tyrrell, Ronald Lacey, Rutger Hauer
Playing as part of Academy Cinemas's Paul Verhoeven Director Spotlight October 13th to 18th.
A deliriously violent medieval epic from genre master Paul Verhoeven (ROBOCOP, TOTAL RECALL), FLESH + BLOOD sees a savage and amoral band of mercenaries take revenge on the noblemen who betrayed them.
'In Western Europe, 1501, a small army of mercenaries led by the charismatic and mercurial Martin (Rutger Hauer; BLADE RUNNER) reclaim a heavily fortified castle for its owner Arnolfini, who then betrays the band and ejects them from the city by force. Swearing revenge, Martin leads a violent assault on the nobleman and ends up accidentally kidnapping the beautiful Agnes (Jennifer Jason Leigh – THE HATEFUL EIGHT), the fiancée of Arnolfini’s son Steven, who in turn pledges to wipe out the mercenary group once and for all.'
With its vision of a brutal and morally bereft Medieval Europe, the film shocked audiences who had become used to the highly romanticised depictions of the era commonly seen on the big screen, and was subsequently censored in the UK due to its extreme amounts of sex and violence!
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Playing as part of Academy Cinemas's Paul Verhoeven Director Spotlight October 13th to 18th.
A deliriously violent medieval epic from genre master Paul Verhoeven (ROBOCOP, TOTAL RECALL), FLESH + BLOOD sees a savage and amoral band of mercenaries take revenge on the noblemen who betrayed them.
'In Western Europe, 1501, a small army of mercenaries led by the charismatic and mercurial Martin (Rutger Hauer; BLADE RUNNER) reclaim a heavily fortified castle for its owner Arnolfini, who then betrays the band and ejects them from the city by force. Swearing revenge, Martin leads a violent assault on the nobleman and ends up accidentally kidnapping the beautiful Agnes (Jennifer Jason Leigh – THE HATEFUL EIGHT), the fiancée of Arnolfini’s son Steven, who in turn pledges to wipe out the mercenary group once and for all.'
With its vision of a brutal and morally bereft Medieval Europe, the film shocked audiences who had become used to the highly romanticised depictions of the era commonly seen on the big screen, and was subsequently censored in the UK due to its extreme amounts of sex and violence!