Venus
by Roger Michell
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Actor: Beatrice Savoretti, Leslie Phillips, Lolita Chakrabarti, Peter O'Toole, Philip FoxDirector: Roger Michell
Brand: Venus
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 95 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-05-22
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Miramax
Movie Reviews of Venus
Movie Review: Life Affirming
Summary: 4 Stars
What a beautiful little film. Peter O' Tools character, Maurice, is so full of life despite his rather frail appearance and as excentric as one would imagine O' Toll himself to be.
For anyone concerned with growing old and eventually dying this movie provides some light at the end of the tunnel.
Summary of Venus
Maurice an aging veteran actor becomes absolutely taken with jessie - the grandniece of his closest friend. When maurice tries to soften the petulant & provincial young girl with the benefit of his wisdom their give-&-take surprises both maurice & jessie as they discover what they dont know about themselves Studio: Buena Vista Home Video Release Date: 01/11/2008 Starring: Peter Otoole Vanessa Redgrave Run time: 94 minutes Rating: RPeter O'Toole adds another Great One to his list of indelible performances: as Maurice, a frail but defiantly horny London actor in his sunset, O'Toole lays bare his weathered face and sophisticated soul for a marvelous portrait of mortality. Maurice, who mostly hangs out counting pills and parsing obituaries with his fellow old-trouper Ian (Leslie Phillips), is roused to play Pygmalion one final time... not on stage, but in life, as Ian's gauche, callow niece (Jodie Whittaker) comes to live with her uncle. It would be very easy to turn this set-up into a heartwarming drama, but screenwriter Hanif Kureishi (My Beautiful Laundrette) has never been one to warm hearts. Unless it's on his own terms. As Maurice takes his Venus under his frail wing and imparts a few old-school instructions to this junk-culture lass, Kureishi and director Roger Michell hit just the right notes of clumsiness, grace, and regret. Everybody's good in the film; Jodie Whittaker does nicely by the task of creating a rather ordinary young woman, and Vanessa Redgrave turns up as Maurice's patient, long-suffering ex (about whom there is nothing ordinary). But it's O'Toole's show, and the grand old actor gives a performance without a hint of grandness, except where it might fit. When he sighs a valedictory, "There really isn't anything else," you know a life's experiences and mistakes are distilled in the wisdom. --Robert Horton
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