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Venus

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United Kingdom · 2006
Rated R · 1h 35m
Director Roger Michell
Starring Peter O'Toole, Leslie Phillips, Jodie Whittaker, Vanessa Redgrave
Genre Comedy, Drama, Romance

Maurice is a veteran actor concerned about his old age. He becomes taken with a young girl named Jessie, the grand-niece of his closest friend. Their friendship blossoms as Maurice imparts the wisdom that comes from age while Jessie helps uncover new aspects of Maurice's personality.

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80

Village Voice by

Maurice, the protagonist of Venus, is a suit lovingly tailored to O'Toole's ravaged but commanding frame.

80

The New York Times by A.O. Scott

Since the movie is about desire -- not so much for sex as for the vitality and surprise that sex can provide -- it is also about power. Few writers can match Mr. Kureishi's knowing wit on this subject, or his skill at dissecting the shifting dynamics of longing and domination.

90

Newsweek by David Ansen

A heartbreaking comedy that is simultaneously funny and sad, raunchy and sweet, funky and elegiac. These fresh, unexpected juxtapositions are a specialty of the writer Hanif Kureishi ("My Beautiful Laundrette"), a sworn enemy of cliché.

100

Los Angeles Times by Kenneth Turan

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.

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