Venus in Fur

Roman Polanski surprises with Venus in Fur

By Jenny Alvarez

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From the writer-director Thomas (Mathieu Amalric) complains that no actress he’s seen has what it takes to play the lead female character: a woman who enters into an agreement with her male counterpart to dominate him as her slave. Thomas is about to leave the theater when actress Vanda (Emmanuelle Seigner) bursts in, a whirlwind of erratic – and, it turns out, erotic – energy. At first she seems to embody everything Thomas has been lamenting. She is pushy, foul-mouthed, desperate and ill-prepared – or so it seems. Venus in Fur has an unique script that involves an extended “audition” and the main element are psycho-sexual mind games.The two main characters are very deep and intense in their roles especially in some elements such as claustrophobia, erotic tension, role games and sexual submission. Venus symbolizes the destabilizing nature of sexual desire. For those ones who are interested in a dominant-submissive historical love story are in fact secretly pining for such a relationship in their own lives. This movie is highly recommended if you love strange stories of Roman Polanski.