Venus Talking (2001)

User Rating:

5.5/10   

Director:

Rudolf Thome

Writer:

Rudolf Thome (writer)

Release Date:

2001 (Germany)

Genre:

Drama | Comedy | Romance

Plot Keywords:

Coming Of Age | Female Nudity | Stripping | Writer | First Love

Cast

Sabine Bach	...	Venus Siebenberg
Roger Tebb	...	Max Webber
Vladimir Weigl	...	Hans Neumann
Guntram Brattia	...	Fabrizio
André Meyer	...	Bernhard Zickzack
Rolf Peter Kahl	...	Herbert
Isabell Hindersin	...	Isolde Neumann
Nicole Berger	...	Biggie
Nora Hanke	...	Sally Webber
Markus Perschmann	...	Thorsten Webber
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Friedrich Cochenhausen	...	Zichzack's Lawyer
Leta Davis	...	Fabrizio's Girlfriend
Sükriye Dönmez	...	Woman in Newspapershop
Kathleen Fiedler	...	Isabelle Neumann
Alexander Höchst	...	Franz
Julius Lange	...	Biggie's Son
Konstantin Prochorowski	...	Manuel (Sally's Boyfriend)
Dieter Rita Scholl	...	Nicoletta
Katharina Wackernagel	...	Girl in Bar
Paula Wallenberg	...	Girl in School
Hanns Zischler

Also Known As:

Venus im Netz (Germany) (TV title)
Venus.de - Die bewegte Frau (Germany)

Runtime:

95 min | Germany:90 min

Country:

Germany

Language:

German

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Certification:

Australia:M | Germany:12

Filming Locations:

Berlin, Germany

Company:

Moana-Film

Movie Connections:

Features Conte d'automne (1998)

Infidelity in the computer age...

*** This comment may contain spoilers ***

This film is an examination of webcams, the Internet, and privacy in a sad story of infidelity. Medium level spoilers follow.

The focus of the film is "Venus", an author who has agreed to write a book while living away from her family under the scrutiny of a webcam, focused to watch her as she works. However she doesn't realise that, while she is taking advantage of being away from her life as a wife and mother, a hidden camera is focused on the rest of her life, recording her affairs for the sake of the computer techie who set up the equipment. When the inevitable happens, and her family discovers her unfaithfulness, they all struggle to understand the relationship gone wrong.

An interesting side-line to the disintergrating relationship is the blossoming romance of her two children. Thorsten her son, interestingly uses his own webcam to discover his new girlfriend's sexuality and enter into an constructive yet innocent relationship which makes for a pleasant counter-balance to his mother's.

All in all, this film brings an interesting perspective to an old story, and for those of us living in Australia or the United States, the film offers a very interesting look at European attitudes towards sexuality. Seven out of ten.