If indeed Venus is his swan song, it resounds with a sweetly magnificent melody. Don’t miss it.
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01/03/07
Venus (2006)
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Reviews Counted:144
Fresh:128
Rotten:16
Average Rating:7.3/10
Consensus: Audiences may attend to witness Peter O'Toole's Oscar-worthy performance, but they'll also be treated to a humane, tender exploration of maturing with both dignity and irreverence.
Theatrical Release:Dec 21, 2006 Limited
Box Office: $3,261,449
Synopsis: 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... [More]
Starring: Peter O'Toole, Jodie Whittaker, Leslie Phillips, Vanessa Redgrave
Director: Roger Michell
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Reviews for Venus
Top CriticPeter O'Toole's Maurice isn't one of those stock characters, like the Lovable Codger or the Misanthropic Coot, we know from sweet Britflicks about lives begun at 70.
01/02/07
O'Toole's glides through his performance as the twinkling debaucher like a dancer sweeping across a ballroom floor, light on his feet, making it seem easy.
12/30/06
What a piece of work by Peter O’Toole.
12/26/06
Top CriticMaster thespian Peter O'Toole proves he's still at the top of his game in [this] poignant, complicated tale about mortality and passion.
12/22/06
O'Toole is simply remarkable as an aging actor still trying to live life to its fullest. He sets the bar way up there for this year's Oscar race.
12/22/06
What makes this film the perfect career nightcap for Peter the great is the nimbus of rakish doom he has always cultivated.
12/22/06
Top CriticPeter O'Toole, looking frail beyond his 74 years, gives what may be his farewell performance as a leading movie actor in Roger Michell's Venus. It's one for the books -- and maybe the Oscars, too.
12/22/06
Top CriticVenus is pitched partly as a fond farewell to a beloved artist [O'Toole], and his whole beautiful generation.
12/22/06
Thanks to its star it possesses both a delicate charm and a poignancy that doesn't descend into mawkishness...O'Toole lights up the screen with masterful understatement.
12/22/06
The performers wrestle the script to the ground! O'Toole's best in years.
12/22/06
Even with O'Toole's charms, this is a story with enormous poor-taste potential. Yet director Roger Michell and writer Hanif Kureishi wisely don't make this a story about May-December sex.
12/21/06
Top CriticVenus is sharply written with fine supporting performances, but the movie is all about O'Toole, showcasing an actor who at 72 continues to astound with the depth of his talent.
12/21/06
Venus gives pleasure and then some. It's a marvelous movie that manages to make you laugh and break your heart all at once as it breezily ruminates on youth and mortality, beauty and brittleness.
12/21/06
Peter O'Toole in an Academy Award caliber performance as a veteran actor who opens our hearts to the bounties of a life animated by kindness and pleasure.
12/21/06
Some moments of Maurice's breast-squeezing come-ons might unleash a case of the icks. It's to O'Toole's credit and ability that the film doesn't ultimately slither off the screen.
12/21/06
Within this shamelessly but cautiously lecherous Shakespeare-quoting rascal lies O'Toole himself, proudly not ready to surrender to his own career twilight and the onset of his winter years.
12/20/06
It's not a masterpiece but it is worth the viewing.
12/20/06
It may be Peter O'Toole's last truly grand performance.
12/20/06
A modest, diverting, touching tale of a young woman who attracts the interest of an aging actor, played with effortless aplomb by the great Peter O'Toole.
12/20/06
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