Delta of Venus
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Movie Reviews of Delta of Venus
Movie Review: Bland
Summary: 3 Stars
Oh, Audie England is cute enough, and looks great wearing not much more than Audie England. The story as a whole just didn't grab me, though.
It's set in Paris, just before the German invasion of France in WWII. Somehow, all the excitement and tension of that time is lost completely. Instead, a self-involved woman is trying to advance herself as a writer by creating smut to order for a secret admirer. Huh?
A few scenes are pleasantly steamy, but the movie as a whole leaves me cold.
//wiredweird
Movie Review: Pretty to look at but...
Summary: 2 Stars
I was not thrilled with this work. Here's why: The movie jumps about in non-logical fashion that distracts from the flow. It is beautifully filmed with great costumes, colors, imagery but the acting is so bland, almost weak! Christ, I wanted to jump in there and show them how to be passionate! The sex scenes were boring. Maybe i should make films! This is frustrating!!
It had it's moments so, 2 stars. Wish someone would make a movie about 'Narcissus and Goldmund' or 'Cloister and the Hearth'. Now That would be Passionate! (unless Amblin or Touchstone did it).
Movie Review: Well photographed, beautiful locations
Summary: 2 Stars
But ultimately unsatisfying. The acting is extremely average. The plot is very underplayed; in fact, too underplayed. Even the erotic aspect of the movie loses its charm early on. I dunno. I don't think Anais Nin would've approved of this adoption of her work.Movie Review: Alpha of ennui.
Summary: 1 Stars
Delta of Venus (Zalman King, 1995)
Ah, the NC-17 rating. It has, since its inception, become arguably more controversial than the existence of the MPAA itself. It's well-known, by now, that an NC-17 rating is a virtual guarantee that your film will either get arthouse exposure at maximum or go straight to video (the most recent example being Ang Lee's new flick Lust, Caution, which garnered an NC-17 and has been ignored by theaters despite its director's lofty reputation). It's a rating that promises dark desires, serious depravity, stuff you just can't find in R-rated movies. And here's a guarantee for you: the vast majority of NC-17 films will simply not deliver on the promises being handed you not by the filmmakers, but by the overly prudish, out-of-touch MPAA.
Delta of Venus is a perfect example of such a flick. How hard can it be to make intelligent, literate porn from the writings of Anais Nin? Impossible, it would seem, in the hands of softcore maven Zalman King (Two Moon Junction). King manages to make a film that is deeply and completely unerotic for the vast majority of its length. Someone once described poker as long stretches of boredom beset with moments of sheer terror; that's as good a description of Delta of Venus as any.
The plot, if you can call anything in this mess a plot: Elena (King regular Audie England) is an American expatriate trying to garner herself a writing career in Paris on the eve of World War II. She meets Lawrence Walters (Picket Fences' Costas Mandylor), a fellow American expatriate, and beings an affair with him; when she sees him with another woman, her heart is broken, and her writing career begins in earnest as she flings herself into Parisian promiscuity.
Audie England is certainly easy on the eyes, but if this performance is any indication, she's not all that great an actress. Though it's quite a trick, when you think about it, to be both wooden and overdramatic at the same time. King does have an eye for beautiful women, though, and he stocks the film with quite a few, all of whom are eager to shed their clothing at the drop of a hat. Unfortunately, the hat drops far too rarely here, as various "oh, look, the war is coming" subplots rear their ugly heads on a regular basis. But what makes this even worse is that the main plot, the love story between Elena and Lawrence, doesn't ring any truer than the war subplot. It's too easy to denigrate the film by calling it a series of vignettes with an extremely weak frame story (after all, Nin's book is a series of vignettes with no frame story at all), but it's too tough to find anything worthwhile in it to spend any more time trying. Half a star simply because I finished it, though for the life of me I have no idea why. (half)
Movie Review: erotic?...gimmy me a break
Summary: 1 Stars
I bought this opus expecting erotic fantasies.....geee, I was mistaken.
Yes, there is some nudity which hardly erotic and not a fantasy at all.
I guess its hard to imagine new things, after all humanity familiar with erotic fantasies no more than a couple years, yeahh, like say 5000?
If you looking for fantasies try Italian flicks as my favored Tinto Brass.