Venus
95 minutes, 2006
Tue. Oct 10, 7:15PM, Sequoia
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Thu. Oct 12, 6:45PM, Cinema Corte Madera
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In a youth-obsessed culture, a film about aging actors, with actors acting their actual old age, might seem a deadly premise. But when it stars Peter O'Toole and Vanessa Redgrave and is written by Hanif Kureishi (My Son the Fanatic, MVFF 1998), the ante is up. Way up. O'Toole plays Maurice Russell, a well-regarded actor still getting roles, even if it is the occasional corpse. When Jessie, the grandniece of his equally aged acting pal Ian, arrives to stay with her uncle, Maurice is completely smitten by her beauty and impetuous youthful energy. A man whose first priority has always been the pursuit of pleasure, Maurice develops a uniquely tender, subtly sensual intergenerational rapport with Jessie, learning much about himself in the process. With compassion, biting British humor and a brilliant balance of the crude and the sophisticated, Venus gives new meaning to the term "for mature audiences only." — J. Parsont
Director: Roger Michell
Producer: Kevin Loader
Screenwriter: Hanif Kureishi
Cinematographer: Haris Zambarloukos
Editor: Nicolas Gaster
Cast: Peter O'Toole, Leslie Phillips, Jodie Whittaker, Vanessa Redgrave, Richard Griffiths
Print Source:
Miramax Films
99 Hudson Street
5th Floor
New York, NY, 10013
Tel: 212-219-4100
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