- 35 mm
- Club 35
One Thursday a month, Palace offers a “cinema classic” to see or rewatch on the big screen.
Jean-Pierre Verscheure, curator and specialist in the history of cinema techniques, along with Fabrice du Welz, director and screenwriter, will present this print.
BASIC INSTINCT
Paul Verhoeven
US, 130′, 1992, VO EN ST FR/NL, 35MM
Synopsis : San Francisco police detective Nick Curran investigates the murder of rock star Johnny Boz, who was killed with thirty-one ice pick stabs by an unknown woman while making love. Nick learns that the singer was seeing Catherine Tramell, a wealthy and brilliant novelist. During his investigation, he discovers that Catherine’s parents died in a suspicious accident, her psychology professor was murdered ten years earlier with an ice pick, and one of her closest friends killed her husband and three children in 1956.
