Venus in Fur

A reading of a play based on Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's novel "Venus in Furs" gradually turns into a cat-and-mouse play between the director and the actress trying to land the role. Masterful adaptation of David Ives' play is a mirror maze where characters, besides morphing into the roles they are playing, also explore the two-ways domination relationship between a director and his actors, debate over the very novel they are working on - and even evoke such Polanski's earlier "The Lodger", with Amalric playing a disquietingly resemblant alter ego of the director himself. Seigner's remarkable... read more