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Actors: Nathalie Baye, Bulle Ogier, Samuel Le Bihan, Mathilde Seigner, Audrey Tautou, Robert Hossein
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Venus Beauty Institute |
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VENUS BEAUTY INSTITUTE (Vénus beauté (institut)) is a French movie written and directed by Tonie Marshall in 1999. This film earned four major French Academy awards : Best film, best director, best screenplay and most promising actress (Tautou).
Angèle (Nathalie Baye) is working at the Venus Beauty Institute, the beauty parlor of Madame Nadine (Ogier). She's 40 years old, still beautiful, but desperately needs the man of her dreams if he exists. Fearing to have her feelings hurt, she uses to go out with men on a one night basis. One evening, a young man, Antoine, talks to her in a restaurant and tells her that, since the day he's seen her for the first time in the street, he has fallen madly in love with her. Angèle is shocked by this confession and chooses to reject Antoine.
Samantha and Marie, Angèle's colleagues, experiment with love in their own peculiar way. Samantha has a new boy-friend every night and Marie is going out with a very old customer of the Institute. The women who come to the parlor use to talk about their private problems with the girls who know them better than their husbands.
Antoine tries to convince Angèle that his love is true and he spends hours in front of the Institute waiting for her. The young woman is unable to see that the man she has waiting for for years is right in front of her. She tries by all possible means to discourage Antoine.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Venus Beauty Institute |
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1980's-1999
Romance/Love/Hugging
Yes
Lover is...
- totally uninterested
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Age:
- 40's-50's
Eccentric:
Yes
- emotionally unstable
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn straight
Body type
- (woman) average
Events of movie makes character more...
- irritated
Ethnicity/Nationality
- French
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) average build
Unclothed?
- chest
How much in movie?
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- French
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- France
City?
Yes
City:
- Paris
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
Movie makes you feel...
- thoughtful
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- actual description of sex
- seeing breasts
- seeing nude female butt
- seeing full frontal--women
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- French
Subtitles?
- Yes
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
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