Venus

2022 1h 41m ES

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6.2

MID

★6.2TMDB · 285

DramaHorrorThriller

Synopsis

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Lucía, a club dancer on the run, takes refuge in a sinister building on the outskirts of Madrid where her sister Rocío lives with her daughter Alba.

“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”

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Cast

Ester Expósito
Lucía
Ángela Cremonte
Rocío
Inés Fernández
Alba
Magüi Mira
Marga
Aten Soria
Romina
María José Sarrate
Rosita
Sofía Reyes
Olivia
Fernando Valdivielso
Moro

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Jaume Balagueró
Writers: Fernando Navarro, Jaume Balagueró
Languages: Spanish
Countries: Spain

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ERA

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Released 4 years ago.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Jaume Balagueró, shot by Pablo Rosso. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Vanessa Garde. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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4 / 6

DIRECTOR

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Editor Luis de la Madrid shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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CAST

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Ester Expósito and Ángela Cremonte and Inés Fernández carry the top of the cast.

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WILD

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IMDB entry: tt15676664 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Jaume Balagueró directs. Pablo Rosso behind the camera. Vanessa Garde scores. Luis de la Madrid cuts. Produced in Spain. Dialogue in Spanish.

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Things worth knowing

1Released 4 years ago.
2Directed by Jaume Balagueró, shot by Pablo Rosso. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
3Original score by Vanessa Garde. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
4Editor Luis de la Madrid shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
5Ester Expósito and Ángela Cremonte and Inés Fernández carry the top of the cast.
6IMDB entry: tt15676664 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
7Classified under 10 themes, including "sibling relationship", "madrid, spain", "go-go dancer", "solar eclipse".

The technical file

Cinematography: Pablo Rosso
Original score: Vanessa Garde
Editing: Luis de la Madrid
Production design: Patrick Salvador
Makeup / hair: Alba Bautista
VFX supervisor: Rubén Algarra
Sound: Laura Díez Mora
Stunt coordinator: Julio Cruz Ardura
Runtime: 101 min · 1h 41m
Status: Released
Original language: ES
Certification (US): R
IMDB: Venus (2022)

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What people are saying

MovieGuys2023-02-13
★ 3/10
Venus takes forever, to go nowhere interesting, let alone terrifying. This Spanish production adapts Lovecraft, in the worst way possible. It takes a modern, predictable underworld/underclass, plot that centres around a down on her luck dancer and her extended family, who become embroiled in the illicit world of drugs. Its depressing stuff, that takes up the majority of this less than inspiring film, which has a equally unimpressive supernatural tie in, with a sinister building they inhabit. Acting is alright but so much else simply doesn't work, it hardly matters. In summary, let down by a bland, done to death contemporary story line, with a vague super natural component, that comes too late and offer's too little.
danversbf2023-09-04
Venus (2022) is a great modern horror with cosmic adaptation that goes around multiple subgenre that called genre-bending with stylist production from Jaume Balagueró itself. It's actually a fresh horror feature but yea the script kinda mess a lil bit, but doesn't make us disappointed cause obviously Ester Expósito's performance bought it. If you like a cosmic horror that has so much graphic elements, you definitely should try Venus!

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