Venus

Peter O’Toole’s swan song. A pair of nearly forgotten, aging actors have shared their daily lives over pints and tea for decades, and find themselves intruded on by a teenage girl who arrives in town to look after her uncle. When she falls in with O’Toole, the spirits of both are boosted. In America, treatises on the elderly vary between the sour Grumpy Old Men and the saccharine Murder, She Wrote. But Venus comes from the salt-and-vinegar pen of Hanif Kureishi (My Beautiful Laundrette, Sammy and Rosie Get Laid) and so becomes a sexually charged and at times brutally honest picture about being young and being old. The girl is confused and battered, as are all teenagers, and the elderly are men and women with desires, aching regrets, and, most importantly, a moving dignity. Check website for opening date: www.landmarktheatres.com