Miscellaneous Movie Musings

[LSPoorEeyorick]

Has anybody else seen Venus?

Edited to add: I scrolled way up and saw that Steve had.

I love O'Toole-- and indeed, it is a fitting last performance (I assume it will be, anyway.) But the movie itself didn't reach me. I think perhaps it has to do with being generally disgusted that attraction to barely-legal really never goes away for most men.

(Yes, I do find it ironic that one of my favorite movies is Harold and Maude. I felt that had less to do with objectifying a child and more with falling in love with ideals. Nevertheless, sex between a youngin' and an octogenarian occurred in H&M, while it's only danced aroundin Venus.)

Anything with the girl-- whose performance did not interest me-- left me cold. Anything with his friends or his ex wife was a delight; Vanessa Redgrave was completely lovely and, I felt, mistakenly ignored for awards season. But then, that best supporting actress category is pretty chock-full this year.