Meeting Venus (1991)
Directed by István Szabó
Genres - Drama, Romance, Music |
Sub-Genres - Romantic Drama, Showbiz Drama |
Release Date - Nov 15, 1991 (USA - Limited), Nov 17, 1991 (USA) |
Run Time - 119 min. |
Countries - United Kingdom, Japan, United States |
MPAA Rating - PG13
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Synopsis by Hal Erickson
Meeting Venus is based on a play cowritten by the film's director, Istvan Szabo. Glenn Close plays a celebrated Swedish opera star Karin Anderson who is slated to appear in an internationally-telecast production of Tannhauser. Ms. Anderson balks at the notion of working with obscure Hungarian conductor Zoltan Szanto. The much-anticipated production may never get off the ground, thanks to labor-management difficulties, intramural jealousies, and clashing egos. Admidst all this chaos, the mismatched Anderson and Szanto fall in love. Filmed in Budapest, Meeting Venus was far from a box-office hit thanks in great part to an inadequate advertising campaign; hopefully it will gain the wide audience it deserves on videocassette. (PS: Glenn Close's singing is dubbed by real-life opera luminary Kiri Te Kanawa. We tell you this because the lyp-synching is done so well that you might actually believe that Close is performing those arias herself).
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artist, backstage, behind-the-scenes, betrayal, bloopers, conductor [music], conflict, extramarital-affair, high-society, Hungary, opera, politician, romance, Sweden