Review: Elle – The Edge

“I love to look at naked girls! I love tits and ass, mostly tits!” A rather infamous quote from Dutch director Paul Verhoeven (of Robocop and Total Recall fame) during the press tour of his equally infamous 1995 cult flop Showgirls: a film so awful that you can actually pinpoint the moments where Kyle MacLachlan, Elizabeth Berkley and Gina Gershon’s careers breathed their last. Derided for its dreadful script, acting and retrograde sexual politics, the film was so backwards that it seemed Verhoeven had gone off the deep end, to a land where there is only casual misogyny and such lines as “Man everybody got AIDs n shit!”.