Three years ago, director Roger Michell and screenwriter Hanif Kureishi gave us a June-to-November romance in The Mother, with grandmother Anne Reid getting it on with her daughter’s hunky boyfriend, Daniel Craig. (Wonder what he thinks about that career move now that he’s playing Her Majesty’s most oversexed superspy...) In Venus, Michell and Kureishi have reversed the sexes and widened the age gap yet further in this tale of an elderly thesp who finds himself drawn to a provincial teenager. Despite being a meditation on infirmity, impotence and death, however, this is an altogether lighter, warmer film than its rueful companion piece.
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