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Carolina Giammetta, Cathryn Bradshaw, Jodie Whittaker, Leslie Phillips, Lolita Chakrabarti
"Venus" tells the story of Maurice and Ian, a pair of veteran actors whose comfortable daily routine is disrupted by the arrival of Ian's grand-niece, Jessie. Maurice takes the teenager under his wing...( read more
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A very poignant and honest story of old age and its relationship to youth. Peter O'Toole is fantastic, and his costars keep up with him. The film is like the British counterpart to Alexander Payne's About Schmidt, more subtle and with smaller strokes, but also more moving for its...( read more)
A fantastic film! Peter O'Toole and Leslie Phillips's chemistry is superb! O'Toole should have won the Oscar! Vanessa Redgrave's performance is also very touching. Highly recommended!
Not at all what I expected, but that's a good thing since this movie had me laughing almost nonstop. Peter O'Toole had his heart broken again by just missing out on finally winning Best Actor for his role as a dirty old man who falls in love with his best friend's daughter's niec...( read more)
if i wanted to give it the benefit of the doubt i'd give it a three, but i don't want! o'toole is a legend and redgrave is apt support yet the film never really goes anywhere except into the zone of boundless swearing. don't get me wrong... i like swearing. i like seeing swearing...( read more)
Venus is the story of how two aging actors (Peter O'Toole and Leslie Philips) lives are turned upside down by a teenager relative of Philip's character Ian. O'Toole plays Maurice, a seventy-something how becomes infatuated with her, but not really to the point of lust. Maurice se...( read more)
Refreshing to see such well respected actors using such colourful language!
What a tour de force! O'Toole, Phillips, Redgrave and the charming young thing that plays our fallen and redeemed heroine bring virtuosity to this unusual .feast of story telling. May I live to become such a grand old fart.
The gentle, poignant story of an unexpected relationship that blossoms between a brash, un-loved teenager and a retired actor more than seventy years her senior. Peter O'Toole plays the ancient actor preparing himself for death, and does it with warmth, love and grace. Favorite s...( read more)
daring,provocative,and with a subject matter that hollywood often fears to tackle,VENUS is a drama unlike any other.and excelled by O'toole wondrous performance,this is a surprisingly brilliant movie that i didn't see coming.the last shot is a gem too(especially if you're a man,h...( read more)
