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MUBI Podcast: Season One Trailer · MUBI Podcast

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  [Rico Gagliano] The Netherlands, my favourite country.
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  [Laidback guitar music] Home to more bikes than people, a modest land of small homes, where people drink beer out of small glasses, but also a country where, in 1973, a quarter of the population went crazy for a film...
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  that sounded like this.
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  [Music concludes][Man grunts, punches land; Yelping][Baby wails][Man shouts][Car accelerates; Yelling][Crash]- [Rico] How does that work?
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  - [Spirited guitar music] I'm Rico Gagliano and on June 3rd, the curated streaming service MUBI, the best place to catch beautiful and often mind-blowing movies from across the planet invites you to join me for...
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  the MUBI Podcast, a front row seat to the great stories behind great movies.
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  This first season, it's a trip around the world as I dive into films that were monster hits in one country and nowhere else.
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  We'll make stops in India, Brazil, Nigeria, and we're starting, yes, in the Netherlands with the Dutch classic Turkish Delight, a crazy erotic melodrama made in a very different time...
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  [Woman] Complete freedom. You know, I didn't put on a bathrobe between takes.
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  [Rico] ..in a country going through some very big changes...
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  [Man] From town hall, the carriage goes to West Church and smoke bombs explode along the route.
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  [Rico] And a movie that blew millions of Dutch minds.
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  [Man] We were stunned when the movie came out.
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  I mean, over, like, four months, five months, the lines were still around a block.
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  That had never happened before in Holland.
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  [Rico] It's a crash course on another culture through the lens of a film that broke all the rules, featuring the voices of the people who made it.
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  [Paul Verhoeven] Anyhow, my name is Paul Verhoeven and I'm the director of a Dutch film called Turkish Delight.[Rico] The premiere of the MUBI Podcast, your audio atlas to a world of great cinema.
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  Follow us on Stitcher, Spotify, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
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  [Music concludes]