Venus (2006)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Venus |
| Country of production | United Kingdom |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2007 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Roger Michell |
| script | Hanif Kureishi |
| production | Kevin Loader |
| camera | Haris Zambarloukos |
| cut | Nicolas Gaster |
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Venus is a 2006 British comedy film directed by Roger Michell . The screenplay for the film about old actors was written by Hanif Kureishi . Peter O'Toole was nominated for an Oscar for Best Actor in 2007 for his performance .
action
Donald, Ian and Maurice are older actors who have known each other for a long time and live in London . Maurice is a former famous actor who still appears in his seventies, but has long passed the zenith of his career.
Ian's family sends him his great niece, Jessie. She is an illiterate and at times rude teenager . The great niece is pursuing two goals: looking after Ian and becoming a model . Ian rejects her because of her performance. Maurice approaches her, however. Jessie and Maurice develop a relationship based on his interest in her as a young, beautiful woman and the fact that she has no one else in London. He becomes her mentor and she becomes his last love before the curtain finally closes.
background
A few years earlier, Peter O'Toole had declined to receive an Oscar for his lifetime achievement because he wanted to win it. The nomination gave him the opportunity to still achieve this goal. While filming, he broke his hip in a fall. After using a hip prosthesis, he continued to play despite the pain.
reception
For the Guardian , Venus was a quintessentially British bittersweet comedy. The American audience might miss the fine irony. O'Toole would be ideally cast. Slant sees Venus as a film in the tradition of Harold and Maude or of A Daredevil in New York , in which an older life force enters into a relationship with someone younger. The setting is predictable, but treated appropriately. The function of the screenplay in this film is to be provided by Maurice and Peter O'Toole with terribly funny lines. It is unclear when O'Toole himself and when he plays Maurice, but that doesn't matter in view of his performance.
Awards
Peter O'Toole was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor, but the award went to Forest Whitaker in The Last King of Scotland . He was also nominated for the Golden Globe and the BAFTA Award , the Screen Actors Guild Award , and numerous other prizes.
Web links
- Venus in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Peter Bradshaw, Venus , The Guardian, January 25, 2007.
- ↑ Roger Michell , Roger Michell on Peter O'Toole: "That great ferocious rage" , The Guardian of 16 December, 2013.
- ↑ Travis Mackenzie Hoover, The Dying of the Light: Peter O'Toole in Venus , Slant Magazine, January 8, 2007.
- ↑ 2007 Oscars on IMDb .
- ↑ Awards for Venus on IMDb .