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Venus

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Original title
Venus
Year
Running time
90 min.
Country
United Kingdom United Kingdom
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Genre
Drama. Romance | Old Age / Elderly
Synopsis
Maurice (Peter O'Toole), Ian (Leslie Phillips) and Donald (Richard Griffiths) are three semi-ancient retirees who meet every day at their favourite pub to raise a glass, commiserate about the state of the world and trade good-natured barbs. Age has slowed their bodies but not their agile minds. The film begins with the somewhat old-maidish Ian eagerly awaiting the arrival of his niece's teenaged daughter, who is coming to care for him. When she arrives, the cheeky, chip-eating Jessie (Jodie Whittaker) is the opposite of what he had expected
Awards
2006: Nominated for Oscar: Best Actor (Peter O'Toole)
2006: 2 Nominations for BAFTA: Leading actor (O'Toole), and Sup. Actor (Phillips)
2006: Nominated for Critics' Choice Awards: Best Actor (O'Toole)
2006: Screen Actors Guild (SAG): Nominated for Best Actor (Peter O´Toole)
2006: British Independent Film Awards (BIFA): Best Supp. Actor (Phillips). 5 Nom.
2006: Chicago Film Critics Association: Nominated for Best Actor (Peter O´Toole)
Critics' reviews
  • "Told with wit, genuine poignancy and all kinds of humor, 'Venus' charts the unlikely relationship between a man in his 70s and a young woman more than half a century his junior."
  • "A sublime meditation that is one of this year's wisest, warmest and funniest films."
  • "A heartbreaking comedy that is simultaneously funny and sad, raunchy and sweet, funky and elegiac."
  • "A love story as tender as it is transgressive. It's a wry celebration of the tyranny of beauty, and the tragicomic way in which desire outruns the betrayals of dying flesh."
  • "Peter O'Toole, still a British cinematic lion at 74, performs another movie miracle in the Roger Michell-Hanif Kureishi film Venus."
  • "The great thing about Venus - apart from its sharp eye for the daily routines and drab details of senior citizenry in a buzzing metropolis - is that it isn't soppy, or sentimental."
  • "This comedy drama is an exercise in self-indulgence for O'Toole, but an enjoyable and touching one."
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Venus
2006
Roger Michell
6.3
(1,909)
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