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Information
- A.k.a.
- Black Venus
- Year
- 2010
- Runtime
- 162 min.
- Director
- Abdellatif Kechiche
- Genres
- Drama, History
- Rating *
- 6.8
- Votes *
- 2,134
- Checks
- 233
- Favs
- 13
- Dislikes
- 5
- Favs/checks
- 5.6% (1:18)
- Favs/dislikes
- 3:1
Top comments
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mpouk
In this uncompromising work, Kechiche, having as a starting point a real story, makes a harrowing comment on the degrading impact of showbiz. Venus is promised fame and riches by exhibiting herself and soon she gets trapped in a vicious circle of increasingly degrading acts to please an increasingly spectacle hungry audience. Although the film is set at the beginning of the 19th century, the codes and nature of the show business are quite similar and Kechiche brilliantly resorts to a devastating real story of the past in order to make a pertinent comment about the exploitative forces in the spectacle society of today. First rate film-making. 10 years 5 months ago