Documentary Preview: Damn right Rutger Hauer deserves a Biographical Documentary — “Like Tears in Rain”

Verhoeven and Miranda and Mickey and Robert Rodriguez and D’Onofrio and Whoopi are among those who appreciate the ultimate cinematic cult figure.

No Ridley Scott? Dude, make time for a movie like this. The title pays tribute to the best actor in one of your most iconiic films.

I interviewed Hauer when “Hobo with a Shotgun” came out. Not one of my favorites among his performances. Check out “Soldier of Orange,” “Escape from Sobibor” or “Blind Fury” to get what the “Blade Runner” fuss is about. Great actor, larger than life personality, humble and magnanimous.

Not sure if writer-director Sanna Fabery de Jonge has found a distributor worthy of his subject matter, but I dare say we’ll be able to get misty-eyed in appreciation of Holland’s greatest male film star on streaming or in a cinema near us sooon enough.

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