Venus Beauty Institute
aka Vénus beauté First screened in February 2020
Director: Tonie Marshall. Cast: Nathalie Baye, Samuel Le Bihan, Bulle Ogier, Mathilde Seigner, Audrey Tautou, Jacques Bonnaffé, Robert Hossein, Hélène Fillières, Claire Nebout, Elli Medeiros, Gilbert Melki, Chantal Bronner, Claire Denis, Florence Derive, Sophie Grimaldi, Catherine Hosmalin, Laurence Mercier, Marie Rivière, Brigitte Roüan, Liliane Rovère, Édith Scob, Micheline Presle, Emmanuelle Riva, Martine Audrain, Joël Brisse. Screenplay: Tonie Marshall, Jacques Audiard, and Marion Vernoux. Twitter Capsule:
Workplace comedy meets melancholic midlife study. Baye a lovely anchor. Next-tier characters are sketchier.
VOR:③
Watch consecutively with An Affair of Love to savor Baye's range but also France's gift for generating delicate character pieces in a range of tones.
