Lightdeossk Captivating movie !

Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Voxitype Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

Erica Derrick By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Kirpianuscus a film of memories. because the past is the basic ingredient not only for film but for its public. Peter O 'Toole in a role who could be perceived as syntheses of his career. because, in a film about old actors, meeting with a young woman, discover of new dimensions of life, dialogues, he is the same - vulnerable, powerful, seductive, ironic, bitter, honest. and this does his Maurice a form of legacy. because all was said. all is known. but something, something real important, must be remembered. this is Venus. a trip in the heart of memories. a form of confession about small things who are pillars of the joy of each age. portrait of a special friendship. as impact of visions. as redefinition of simple realities. as a form of lesson.and the great Peter O 'Toole.

SnoopyStyle Maurice Russell (Peter O'Toole) is a respected actor in his twilight in London. His playboy days are over but he's still a bit of a dirty old man. His friend Ian is getting a girl to help out. Ian's niece is sending her daughter Jessie (Jodie Whittaker) from the country. She's messy and no help at all. She expects to be a model while eating nothing but junk food. Ian is frustrated and Maurice is entranced.There is only one Peter O'Toole and he gives us one great final curtain call. He shows the world that he still has it. He is the only one who can play a dirty old man and do it with playfulness. It's also done with a bit of edge. It's fun. It's poignant. There is no other like him. He is joined by great screen veterans and newcomer Whittaker.

Armand it is one of his great roles. seductive, powerful, honest, simple. a piece from ordinary life. two worlds. few questions. a lot of answers. and three old men front with a girl who must define her. nothing else. or, this poor stage is best space for O'Toole art to do a delicate, convincing portrait. and his science of detail give force to Jodie Whittaker performance. and basis for story, nuances to its levels, joy to discover a rare small gem. a delight. in special form. and best manner to present steps of a fight against yourself in which innocence is part of wise gestures, in which love is more than desire but destroy of predictable future. a film about ordinary universe,. warm, touching, splendid. its axis - the brilliant Peter O'Toole.

selffamily Peter O'Toole takes my breath away. As the movie started I didn't think I would enjoy it, but I was sucked in by the magic. O'Toole, Phillips and Griffiths show us where old actors go - their graveyard if you like - and when Phillips' great niece is thrust upon him, and he is revolted, O'Toole starts to be nice to her and falls madly for the image of young womanhood and all it had meant to him. There are splendid scenes with his wife, played as ever flawlessly by Vanessa Redgrave (all hail to thee) and we are captivated by the unravelling story of an old man's final passion and its inevitable final curtain. Betrayed by the young woman's controlling boyfriend (watch out for him, he can act without speaking) O'Toole is then spiralling downwards and outwards from this life, and somehow inveigles the girl to take him to his seaside haunt. He dies happy, with wet feet and she is changed for ever. It's true, it's not a comfortable watch,(but it's not creepy and it is funny) but I wouldn't have missed it for the world. Where will we ever find their like?