Word: venusized
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...Leonardo DiCaprio, Blood Diamond Ryan Gosling, Half Nelson Peter O'Toole, Venus Will Smith, The Pursuit of Happyness Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland...
...Gosling, he rode the indie wave onto Santa Monica beach with his solid if mannered portrayal of a drug-addled teacher. O'Toole, 74, was nominated for his charmingly cadaverous work in Venus and for outliving decades-long expectations of his demise. Smith ought to get a prize for making hits out of movies in unfashionable genres: romantic comedy, as in Hitch, and this male weepie. He's the black Hanks; and since Tom soiled himself last year by doing The Da Vinci Code, Will gets the good...
...therefore a pleasure to say something nice about Venus, in which lanky, scrawny, Peter O'Toole, playing an aging actor named Maurice, just plain refuses to acknowledge the fact that he's not feeling so hot. He keeps working such modest jobs as come his way, keeps ragging on his pal Ian (Leslie Phillips), who is less sickly, but more prone to aches, pains and complaints, and mostly undertakes the education - actually we'd better make that the civilization - of the eponymous Venus (Jodie Whittaker, a young actress making an utterly fearless debut). She's Ian's grandniece, up from...
...duck than a leading man, age (he's 74) has given him license to play his essential weirdness and it precludes us from feeling the slightest bit sorry for him as illness chips away at - but never conquers - his bonhomie. It just sort of happens to him, and Venus just sort of sees him through it, without pitying him - or leaving us awash in tears either. The script by Hanif Kireishi is witty without being self-consciously so, and Roger Michell's direction has a nice awareness of middle-class London, clinging to its dignity but just a little...
...much improved, the applicability to modern life was still hazy. Its themes of betrayal and sorrow are obviously universal, but the cantata simply lacked the feel of modernity present in the last two cantatas.In the third cantata, “Amour piqué par une abeille,” Venus and her son Love are in a garden. When Love is stung by a bee, he seeks comfort from his mother who reminds him that his own stings of love are much more painful. A lovely story in itself, the performances of Caitlin C. Vincent...