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Paul Ruven only rents himself a venue

Gloating is a beautiful and deeply human thing. Director, screenwriter and film producer Paul Ruven - known for one Dutch film blockbuster after another, as we call Het Bombardement - recently received an imposing bucket of critical shit poured over him in response to his new bake The Surrender. So much that the Amsterdam cinemas did not want to get burned by it.

Still, Ruven does not let himself be cowed.

He tweeted jubilantly today:

Were it not for the fact that he hu...

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Daniel Bertina

/// Freelance cultural journalist, critic, writer and dramatist. Omnivore with a love of art, culture & media in all unfathomable gradations between obscure underground and wildly commercial mainstream. Also works for Het Parool and VPRO. And trains Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.View Author posts

Gloating is a beautiful and deeply human thing. Director, screenwriter and film producer Paul Ruven - known for one Dutch film blockbuster after another, as we call Het Bombardement - recently received an imposing bucket of critical shit poured over him in response to his new bake The Surrender. So much that the Amsterdam cinemas did not want to get burned by it.

Still, Ruven does not let himself be cowed.

He tweeted jubilantly today:

Were it not for the fact that he hu...

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