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Overview

User Rating:
6.4/10   2,353 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Tonie Marshall (screenplay) &
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Release Date:
3 February 1999 (France) more
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Tagline:
Welcome to the Venus Beauty Institute where love, innocence and sex are a sight to behold.
Plot:
Employees of a beauty parlor in search of love and happiness. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
8 wins & 3 nominations more
User Comments:
Good Bittersweet Movie more (22 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Nathalie Baye ... Angèle Piana
Bulle Ogier ... Madame Nadine, la patronne

Samuel Le Bihan ... Antoine DuMont
Jacques Bonnaffé ... Jacques
Mathilde Seigner ... Samantha

Audrey Tautou ... Marie
Robert Hossein ... L'aviateur
Marie Rivière ... La cliente aux bottines fourées
Edith Scob ... La cliente aux taches sur les mains
Hélène Fillières ... La fiancée d'Antoine (as Hélène Filières)
Brigitte Roüan ... Madame Marianne
Claire Nebout ... La cliente exhibitioniste
Micheline Presle ... Tante Maryse
Emmanuelle Riva ... Tante Lyda

Elli Medeiros ... Mlle Evelyne
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Vénus institut (France) (working title)
Venus Beauty Institute (USA) (literal English title)
Venus Beauty Salon (UK)
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MPAA:
Rated R for sexuality/nudity and language.
Runtime:
105 min
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Quotes:
Angele: When you smile I find you handsome.
Jacques: That's because you know my soul.
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Followed by "Vénus & Apollon" (2005) more
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Samuel more

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13 out of 15 people found the following comment useful.
Good Bittersweet Movie, 4 December 2000
8/10
Author: sharkfinsoup from Chicago USA

This movie has some fine acting. It is driven by character rather than plot. Nathalie Baye, as Angèle, plays a 40ish beautician in Paris. She has had a traumatic childhood and has been burned in love so she limits herself to one-night stands where she is in the driver's seat. Then a man obsessively falls for her and she has to decide whether to open up to love, or at least the possibility of it. This does not play out quite the way it would if this were a Hollywood high concept movie.

There are many minor characters, affectionately drawn. Some pieces of Angèle's past never quite get explained or resolved, which some people might complain about, but, hey, life is a lot like that.

This film is set in Paris, right before and right after Christmas. (I also saw "La Buche" at the same theater, also set in Paris at Christmas, also very good)

The jazzy score is particularly nice.

This is not exactly an upbeat Christmas movie, but it's well worth seeing.

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