Reviews for this film from our members:
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: fleet, funny and ferocious
- Carlos del Río @ El rincón de Carlos del Río [Spanish]
- Excerpt: Tiene un grave problema de interés en su parte central.
- Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies
- Excerpt: The shifting power dynamics—between the characters and the roles they are playing—are enthralling.
- Roderick Heath @ This Island Rod
- Excerpt: Brisk, deft, taunting, and sinuous, Venus in Fur is satisfying on some wicked level.
- Jeremy Kibler @ The Artful Critic
- Excerpt: With so many films accused of being misogynistic, “Venus in Fur” is intentionally misandristic and does it with perverse pleasure.
- Kristin Dreyer Kramer @ NightsAndWeekends.com
- Mathieu Li-Goyette @ Panorama-cinéma [French]
- Glenn Lovell @ CinemaDope.com
- Excerpt: S&M dance or feminist tract? Late career breather or Polanski answering his harshest critics? A cagey two-hander with tour-de-force turn by sexy Seigner.
- Matthew Lucas @ From the Front Row
- Excerpt: It’s an erotic firecracker of a movie; at once coy and vivacious, fascinating and mysterious.
- Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Jonathan Richards @ www.jonrichardsplace.com
- Excerpt: A few years ago, Roman Polanski took a French play, Yasmina Reza’s God of Carnage (originally Le Dieu du Carnage) and made a disappointing hash of it as an English language film. Now he’s taken an American play, David Ives’s Venus in Fur, translated it into French, and made some movie magic.
- Tom Santilli @ Examiner.com
- Excerpt: Polanski skillfully and successfully captures the essence of the source material.
- Frank Swietek @ One Guys Opinion
- Excerpt: A playful-yet-serious rumination on sexual gamesmanship presented through a form of theatrical artifice that Polanski embraces while giving it cinematic polish.
- Sarah Ward @ FilmInk
