Venus(2006)- User Reviews

golden pond was the 1st to look at death from old age. we have come to look at depth at old age, living to see 80 or more is not pretty. better to burn out than fade away.more»

People love this movie?

I think their character is questionable.
So when you are in the part of your life that you cant have sex, but your mind still goes there you subsitute it with this?

You want to tackle the issue of aging men and their sexual …more»

I sooo loved this sweet, dark and yet not dark- more real- film..Sensual without being overtly sexual, it was a turn on for me. ANd reminded me of men in my life I have met. And me. Peter O'Toole shines in this film as does the script and particularly …more»

Boring and self-indulgent, with a lot of navel-gazing. A dreary character study at best. What was the point of making this movie?

Why did I think it would be a quirky, funny film? Wrong on both counts!

Vanessa Redgrave is the only actress that adds …more»

Venus is a film about endings, the end of youth, the end of beauty and the end of life, however one is wise to accept such endings and realize that our prime time has passed. In Venus Maurice seems to live in denial and tries to seduce a girl as if he …more»

I was humbled by this movie, at times so honest and so unflinching in its look at old age and at other times using it as a backdrop to a tour de force acting performance by Peter O'Toole. What a lovely thing, to see our "Aurence", whithered …more»

OK, so there's profanity and some truly off-color content, but this is one of greatest little movies ever made. Truly. Peter O'Toole is mind-boggling spectacular. It seems a lot of user reviews reflect they didn't really "get" the …more»

I thought Peter O'Toole gave a great performance and Jodie Whittaker was equally amazing as a newcomer in "Venus."

For me this story border-lined on kind of amoral. It lacked a kind of moral sensibility and didn't care about right …more»

I don't get it...I just don't get it. I'm no conservative but this movie is sick. An old man lusting after a 14 year old girl? It was disturbing & disgusting...and not much pushes me to that limit. Not goodmore»

Peter O'Toole is indeed still in the game. What a masterwork performance by one of the great actors of the last fifty years. This is as great a movie as many of the critics claimed Lost in Translation to be. Like that film it is grimly realistic. …more»