Posted on 19/01/07
Tottering with a flourish
Venus***Directed by Roger MichellWritten by Hanif KureishiStarring Peter O'Toole, Jodie Whittaker and Vanessa RedgraveClassification: 14ABy outlasting his peers, 74-year-old Peter O'Toole carries the torch for the whole blazing, hard-living, between-the-wars generation of British Isles actors. No doubt some of the praise for his performance in his latest movie, Venus, is for mere survival, but the part is also his best showcase in years. In what surely isn't a stretch, O'Toole plays Maurice, a rakish once-famous actor now frail and in declining health who can't resist the lure of a last chance at an erotic entanglement.
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