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Venus
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DVD Details

  • Rated: R
  • Closed captioning available
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 35 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: May 22, 2007
  • Originally Released: 2006
  • Label: Miramax

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User Ratings: 11,454
Worth seeing for O'Toole's incorrigible twilight jesting Full Review
CinePassion
Aug 28, 2009
Rating: 3/5 -- Una comedia dramática agridulce donde brilla con luz propia el formidable Peter O'Toole, en un papel que tiene mucho de sí mismo. Full Review
Uruguay Total
Sep 22, 2007
3 stars out of 5 -- O'Toole gives a staggering performance -- fearless, defiantly untamed and in its own way a work of art.
Rolling Stone
Dec 14, 2006
4 stars out of 5 -- VENUS sweetly sustains its autumnal mood, deriving both comedy and poignancy from the numerous indignities of age.
Total Film
Mar 1, 2007
Rating: 7/10 -- While age may have devoured O'Toole's youth, it has been utterly unable to touch his blistering talent, or his eyes which still sparkle with rakish light. Full Review
BrandonFibbs.com
Feb 28, 2008
O'Toole, in the role that earned him his eighth Oscar nod, still commands the screen, those famous blue eyes radiating wisdom and mischief. -- Grade: B-
Entertainment Weekly
May 25, 2007
Rating: 4/4 -- It's a pleasure to have Peter O'Toole's company here - likely for the last time in a role of such magnitude & majesty, bangs still swept back in boyish wisps and his sky-blue eyes vibrant and hungry. A loving, lyrical, eloquent sonnet to elderly sunsets. Full Review
The Film Yap
Nov 22, 2010

Product Description:

Screen legend Peter O'Toole stars in this moving story of an elderly actor and his somewhat questionable relationship with a teenage girl. Maurice (O'Toole) and his friend Ian (Leslie Phillips) are two classy curmudgeons whiling away their hours in coffee shops and at the theater, but their routine is thrown for a loop when Ian's niece's daughter Jessie (Jodie Whittaker) is sent from the country to act as his nurse. Jessie shows up on the scene sullen and pouty, immediately drinking all the liquor in the house and slouching her way from room to room. But Maurice befriends her, taking her to museums and getting her a gig as an art model, and along the way he openly expresses the lust she has awakened in him. Jessie's brash rejections of his affections are at first as amusing as they are awkward. When she starts to allow him small pleasures--like kissing her bare shoulders or caressing her hands--the film enters into some uncomfortable, complicated territory, but it is deftly navigated by Hanif Kureishi's sharp screenplay, and O'Toole's heartbreaking performance.

VENUS is in many ways a quiet film, shot mainly in tiny shops and in Ian's musty apartment, and it often relies on single shots of O'Toole's weary blue eyes to convey the many complexities within the story. Far from just a tale of a May-December romance, VENUS is a very raw look at growing old, and the aches and pains, both emotional and physical, that accompany a man near the end of his life. It is an honest, moving portrait of human desire, and how it can both beat us down and lift us up--no matter the age.

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  • UPC: 031398139287
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