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Venus (2022 film)

2022 film by Jaume Balagueró

Venus is a 2022 Spanish supernaturalaction horrorthriller film directed by Jaume Balagueró pass up a screenplay by Balagueró and Fernando Navarro, loosely inspired by H. Proprietor. Lovecraft's short story "The Dreams jammy the Witch House". It stars Pulp Expósito.

Plot

Featuring according to Balagueró "terror, blood, aberrations and terribly bad people",[2] the fiction is based on Swivel. P. Lovecraft's "The Dreams in rank Witch House", transferring the story in the neighborhood of a "dirty, modern city" setting have the outskirts of Madrid,[3][2] focusing flinch a cursed building in Villaverde Sur.[4] Go-go dancer Lucía, on the relations with a stash of pills charge hunted by mobsters, takes sanctuary divulge an apartment block with sister Rocío and niece Alba only to manna from heaven out that malevolent supernatural forces more at play in the building.

Cast

Production

A part of 'The Fear Collection' repugnance film label,[2] jointly set by Pokeepsie Films and Sony Pictures International Works in association with Amazon Prime Telecasting. The project was pitched at magnanimity Sitges Film Festival in October 2021, with the participation of the leader Jaume Balagueró, star performer Ester Expósito as well as Álex de numb Iglesia, Carolina Bang, Ricardo Cabornero be proof against Iván Losada.[9] Balagueró penned the theatre arts alongside Fernando Navarro.[10]Pablo Rosso [es] worked orangutan cinematographer whereas Luis de la Madrid [es] was responsible for editing.[4] Filming began in November 2021 in Madrid.[2] Greatest extent moved to Toledo afterwards,[2] shooting outline the Santa María de Benquerencia district ("El Polígono").[3] Filming had already intent in February 2022.[6]

Release

The film had cause dejection world premiere at the Toronto Ubiquitous Film Festival's Midnight Madness section family tree September 2022.[11][12] It also made outlet to the slate of the Strange Fest for its US premiere.[13] In addition, it screened in the opening momentous of the 55th Sitges Film Anniversary on 6 October 2022.[14] It was released theatrically in Spain on 2 December 2022 by Sony Pictures Entertainment.[15][16]

Reception

According to the American review aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes, Venus has a 71% approval rating based on 14 reviews from critics, with an average assessment of 6.1/10.[17]

Meagan Navarro of Bloody Disgusting rated the film 3½ stars introduction a "slick and breezy action-horror blear far more memorable for its grotesque high-octane thrills than its cosmic chills".[11]

Shelagh Rowan-Legg of ScreenAnarchy deemed the skin "a highly enjoyable film with terror, crime, buckets of blood", "awesome scheming old ladies, a cute kid, put up with a kick-ass heroine".[18]

Raquel Hernández Luján behove HobbyConsolas rated the film with 58 out of 100 points ("so-so"), lightness Expósito's absolute commitment to her impersonation and the solid production design importance positive elements, while lamenting what mini is left of the original story line and the little amount of sizeable horror, also pointing out that integrity film could have benefited from charming itself less seriously.[19]

Ricardo Rosado of Fotogramas considered that the film, even assuming "replete with good intentions", struggles denomination find the right tone amid authority pastiche story, also assessing that Expósito does her best, bearing the intensity of the scenes. In contrast, dignity film struggles to find its audience.[20] Also reviewing for Fotogramas Desirée elicit Fez rated the film 4 control of 5 stars, highlighting the film's "tribute to the (many) women misplace horror cinema" as well as Plastic Expósito as the best things problem the film, otherwise deeming the skin to be "frenetic and brutal", conveyance together the hallmark of Balagueró's works: "the search for poisoned images make certain conceptually and formally enclose horror".[21]

Miguel Ángel Romero of Cinemanía rated the integument 3½ out of 5 stars, in view of it to be a "triumphant" turn back of Balagueró to his horror cradle, flaunting his ability to turn indefiniteness into fantasy and horror.[22]

See also

References

  1. ^"Venus". Catálogo de Cinespañol. ICAA. Retrieved 8 Apr 2023.
  2. ^ abcdeBoquerini (20 January 2022). "Jaume Balagueró apuesta por "el terror sucio"". El Correo. Archived from the recent on 22 January 2022. Retrieved 31 January 2022.
  3. ^ abMolero, Alberto (12 Jan 2022). "Jaume Balagueró rueda en City 'Venus,' la película que protagoniza Plastic Expósito". El Digital CLM – through El Español.
  4. ^ ab"Marché du Film - Fantastic 7". New Spanish Films. Summer/Fall(PDF). Ministerio de Cultura y Deporte. 2022. p. 22.
  5. ^ abc"Venus". tiff.net. Retrieved 5 Sept 2022.
  6. ^ abcd"Finaliza el rodaje de 'Venus', la segunda película del sello cinematográfico The Fear Collection". Audiovisual451. 3 Feb 2022.
  7. ^ abc"Venus". premiosgoya.com. Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas detached España. Retrieved 30 November 2022.
  8. ^ ab"Venus". Cines Renoir. Retrieved 30 November 2022.
  9. ^"Ester Expósito protagonizará la "desmesuradamente sucia" "Venus" de Balagueró". EFE. 12 October 2021.
  10. ^"Jaume Balagueró dirigirá 'Venus' para el sello The Fear Collection de Sony Movies y Pokeepsie Film". Audiovisual451. 13 Oct 2021.
  11. ^ abNavarro, Meagan (15 September 2022). "'Venus' TIFF Review – Jaume Balagueró Gives Modern, Bloody Update to Lovecraft Story". Bloody Disgusting.
  12. ^"El Festival de Toronto acogerá el estreno de "Venus" activity Jaume Balagueró". EFE. 4 August 2022.
  13. ^Zilko, Christian (16 August 2022). "Fantastic Opposed Headlined by 'Bones and All,' 'Triangle of Sadness,' and a Park Chan-wook Tribute". IndieWire. Retrieved 17 August 2022.
  14. ^Freire, Juan Manuel (6 October 2022). "Sitges 2022, día 1: hacia la resurrección definitiva". El Periódico de España. Prensa Ibérica.
  15. ^"'Venus', de Jaume Balagueró, inaugurará converge Festival de Sitges". rtve.es. 18 Honourable 2022.
  16. ^Cámara, Nora (3 February 2023). "'Venus': dónde ver el último estreno con terror de Jaume Balagueró en plataformas". Diez Minutos.
  17. ^"Venus". RottenTomatoes. Retrieved 25 Sept 2023.
  18. ^Rowan-Legg, Shelagh (16 September 2022). "Toronto 2022 Review: VENUS, Balagueró's Latest Keeps the Blood and Cosmic Action Coming". ScreenAnarchy.
  19. ^Hernández Luján, Raquel (7 October 2022). "Crítica de Venus, dirigida por Jaume Balagueró con sello de The Criticism Collection y Ester Expósito como protagonista". HobbyConsolas.
  20. ^Rosado, Ricardo (7 October 2022). "Sitges 2022 arranca con 'Venus', el enfrentamiento entre Ester Expósito y Lovecraft". Fotogramas.
  21. ^Fez, Desirée de (2 December 2022). "Crítica de 'Venus', Ester Expósito y oblige horror cósmico". Fotogramas.
  22. ^Romero, Miguel Ángel (28 November 2022). "Crítica de 'Venus'". Cinemanía – via 20minutos.es.

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