Venus in Fur
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DVD Details
- Run Time: 1 hours, 36 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: October 14, 2014
- Originally Released: 2013
- Label: IFC Independent Film
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Emmanuelle Seigner & Mathieu Amalric | |
Directed by | Roman Polanski | |
Screenwriting by | Roman Polanski & David Ives | |
Composition by | Alexandre Desplat | |
Produced by | Robert Benmussa & Alain Sarde | |
Director of Photography: | Pawel Edelman |
Entertainment Reviews:
A dark labyrinth of comedic mind games that does with words what something like Lady from Shanghai does with mirrors.
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IONCINEMA.com
The haunted-house lighting is a perfect match for the claustrophobic intimacy of this two-hander - and camouflage, perhaps, for the fact that "Venus in Fur" remains more play than film.
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Arizona Republic
Rating: 3/4 --
Whether you like it or not, Roman Polanski is a great artist, and even the minor films of his fugitive decades glimmer with the claustrophobia and sardonic bleakness of his greatest work.
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Boston Globe
Rating: 3/4 --
An erotic firecracker of a movie; at once coy and vivacious, fascinating and mysterious.
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From the Front Row
Rating: 4/5 --
Venus In Fur is essentially a weightless skit, a parody of those hoary old archetypes of Man and Woman. But it's also a tribute to Seigner, who seizes the gift of a role that allows her to be sexy, funny and imposing.
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Sydney Morning Herald
Lighthearted as it is, Venus in Fur has the rare effect of filtering the viewer's life through its own extreme lens.
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Flavorwire
A challenging, timely, and entertaining movie.
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Memphis Flyer
Product Description:
Roman Polanski adapts David Ives Tony Award-winning Broadway play about a frustrated theater director whose growing obsession with a volatile actress signals the start of an unexpected power shift. Exhausted after a day of unsuccessful auditions for the female lead in his play exploring the volatile relationship between a domineering mistress and her willing male subject, writer/director Thomas (Mathieu Amalric) broods over his lack of success when tempestuous actress Vanda (Emmanuelle Seigner) blows into the theater like a sweltering summer storm. Though at first reluctant to give the overly-assertive and questionably-talented actress an audition, Thomas eventually relents. Subsequently captivated by her intense erotic energy, he gradually begins to realize she was more prepared than initial appearances suggested, and that she's perfect for the role. Yet in his spellbound state, Michael fails to notice that Vanda - who even shares the same name as her fictional counterpart - has slyly managed to turn the tables on him and before long their relationship begins to strike an eerie parallel with those of his impassioned characters.
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- UPC: 030306939094
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