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Venus (DVD, 2007)

Director: Roger Michell
Rating: Rated R
Release Date: May 2007
Format: DVD
UPC: 786936712438
Product ID: EPID58624485
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 the...
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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.

Credits
Producer:Kevin Loader
Cast:Beatrice Savoretti, Vanessa Redgrave

Editorial Reviews
"Peter O'Toole has entertained audiences by embracing the joy of purely acting....He embellishes every line with the unbridled delight of a sleek old bloodhound gnawing happily on a bone."
Box Office - Kevin Courrier (11/01/2006)

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 - Peter Travers (12/14/2006)

4 stars out of 5 -- "VENUS sweetly sustains its autumnal mood, deriving both comedy and poignancy from the numerous indignities of age."
Total Film - Philip Kemp (03/01/2007)

"O'Toole still has the requisite charm to play an incorrigible womanizer, and he also finds the pathos in the character without begging for sympathy."
Movieline's Hollywood Life - Stephen Farber (01/01/2007)

"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 - Missy Schwartz (05/25/2007)

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    Last updated: 2008-04-21 06:50:04.0 by
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    Introduction

    British actors Peter O'Toole  and Vanessa Redgrave make "Venus" a remarkable film about a dying elderly ladies man who encounters the older teenage niece of one of his close chums and kindles a platonic love affair with her, naming her Venus. It is in DVD digital format. Rated R for sexual content, language, and brief nudity. Runs 95 mins. Free Range Films produced it and it was released on January 16th, 2007. It was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for O'Toole, won 2 major awards and was nominated for 16 more.


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    MPAA - Rated R for language, some sexual content and brief nudity: Parents Guide - Rated R: Runtime - 95 min: Country - UK: Language - English: Color - Color: Aspect Ratio - 1.85.1: Sound Mix - Dolby Digital: Filming Locations - Ealing Studios, Ealing, London, UK: These details are from IMDb.


    Additional Information

    Featured in:    The 64th Annual Golden Globe Awards (2007) (TV) -  clips 
          ;                  13th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2007) (TV) -  Nominee clips. 
                            The 79th Academy Awards (2007) (TV) -  clips


    Summary

    Peter O'Toole was 74yo when playing Maurice, the leading actor in this film. He is a silver screen & stage legend with nominations for 8 Oscars, another 21 major acting award wins & 25 more nominations.

    Vanessa Redgrave was 3 days shy of 70yo when this film was releaseds. Redgrave plays O'Toole's his slightly crippled (ex?) wife & mother (Valerie) of his three unseen children. 

    Jodie Whitaker was 25yo when she played the leading lady, Jessie, Maurice's 'Venus'. This is her 1st motion picture! Together O'Toole and Whitaker are the approximate ages of their characters. So the platonic affiar they develop is a charming one, also scandalous considering that there are 2 generations of age difference (50 years) between them!

    The high theme of the whole film is about elderly people, especially men in this one, of their actual era and generation, as in modern day, using the curse language of the aged hippies turned successful actors, and with Maurice never having lost his touch with the ability to seduce a beautiful young woman.

    O'Toole is absolutely in character, on spot! In one scene I view him as a completely dirty old man, and another, I don't see why on Earth he can't be sexually seductive in the ethical ways he is. His Venus (Whitaker) is the last woman with whom he'll ever have any type of fling, platonic or otherwise.

    My favorite part of the whole film is the choice scene between O'Toole & Redgrave when they are seated at her table and discussing their past. He tells her he lover her even though he left her with their 3 children "for his own pleasure." O'Toole, who is playing Maurice as near-death-frail, leans into Valerie (Redgrave) after she says to him tha...

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    Review created: 04/21/08(updated 07/14/08)
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    50 of 50 people found this review helpful.

    Peter O'Toole was 74yo when playing Maurice, the leading actor in this film. He is a silver screen & stage legend with nominations for 8 Oscars, another 21 major acting award wins & 25 more nominations.

    Vanessa Redgrave was 3 days shy of 70yo when this film was released. Redgrave plays Valerie, Maurice's slightly crippled (ex?) wife & mother of his three (unseen) children.

    Jodie Whitaker was 25yo when she played the leading lady, Jessie; Maurice's 'Venus', in this, her 1st motion picture! Together O'Toole and Whitaker are the approximate ages of their characters. So the platonic affair they develop is a charming one, also scandalous considering that there are 2 generations of age difference (50 years) between them!

    The high theme of the whole film is about elderly people, especially men in this one, of their actual era and generation, as in modern day, using the curse language of the age-d hippies turned successful actors, and with Maurice never having lost his touch with the keen ability to seduce a beautiful young woman.

    O'Toole is absolutely in character, on spot! In one scene I view him as a completely dirty old man, and another, I don't see why on Earth he can't be sexually seductive in the ethical ways he is. His Venus (Whitaker) is the last woman with whom he'll ever have any type of fling, platonic or otherwise.

    Any suggested sexuality in the film should not be viewed as the major point the plotline is making. I won't reveal what that is!

    My favorite scene of the entire film is choice: between O'Toole & Redgrave, when they are seated at her table and discussing their past. He tells her he loves her even though he left her with their 3 children "for his own pleasure." O'Toole, who is playing Maurice as near-death-frail, leans into Valerie (Redgrave) after she says to him that she doesn't want to hear "any of it." He says to her "we're not going to live forever." They gaze into each other's eyes and he ever so gently strokes her cheek; then, they mutually kiss with closed lips very tenderly. Afterwards, their ways of smiling at each other is a classic moment of truly great veteran British actors seemingly adoring each other. Not just their characters.

    "Venus" is one of the best modern films I've seen in this century. Both O'Toole and Redgrave are in their 70's and acting in a host of films that are currently being filmed or have already been released since this one. Both of them, like the US's leading lady, Lauren Bacall (now 83yo), are setting the standards for the kinds of characters older actors are offered to play; ones that transcend them being type-cast by ageism. "Venus" sets a primary example of that~


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