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Vénus beauté (institut) (1999)
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Release Date:
3 February 1999 (France)
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Welcome to the Venus Beauty Institute where love, innocence and sex are a sight to behold.
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Employees of a beauty parlor in search of love and happiness. full summary | add synopsis
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8 wins
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Good Bittersweet Movie
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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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Also Known As:
Vénus institut (France) (working title)
Venus Beauty Institute (USA) (literal English title)
Venus Beauty Salon (UK)
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Venus Beauty Institute (USA) (literal English title)
Venus Beauty Salon (UK)
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Rated R for sexuality/nudity and language.
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105 min
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Argentina:13 |
Canada:14A |
France:U |
Germany:12 |
Singapore:M18 |
Spain:13 |
Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) |
Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) |
UK:15 |
USA:R
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Followed by "Vénus & Apollon" (2005)
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Samuel
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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.