Venus Beauty Institute

Venus Beauty Institute

1999 · 105 min · FR · 5.9 (140 votes)
Dir. Tonie Marshall · Starring Nathalie Baye, Bulle Ogier, Audrey Tautou, Mathilde Seigner, Samuel Le Bihan, Jacques Bonnaffé · Music Khalil Chahine

“Welcome to the Venus Beauty Institute where love, innocence and sex are a sight to behold”

ComedyDramaRomance

Aging beautician Angèle, already wounded by a long-ago romance, gets awkwardly dumped at a train station. Witnessing how she turns around a humiliating situation, younger sculptor Antoine becomes so smitten that he breaks up with his fiancée and sets out to win Angèle's heart. Meanwhile, Angèle attempts to quash the budding romance of her young co-worker, Marie, and a much older widowed client, despite their obvious rapport.

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A gentle, observational look at the lives and loves of women working in a Parisian beauty salon. It feels like eavesdropping on intimate conversations, filled with wry humor and a touch of melancholy about romance and life's unexpected turns.

wittycharmingbittersweetnostalgicintimatesteadyFrench New Waveslice-of-lifecharacter-drivenlovefemale friendshipdisillusionmentfinding oneself
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