Venus

I watched this a couple nights ago on DVD, and thought it was a masterpiece. The recursion and irony of Peter O'Toole half-dead, playing a half-dead actor, who plays a dying man in a sitcom to pay his bills was too too sweet. And the cruelty of the young woman, recast halfway through the film as victimization, was also brilliant. And O'Toole's wheezing throughout, and the way he dies. It was friggin brilliant!