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Venus Beauty Institute(1999)
Status: Released
Date: 1999-02-03
58%
126 Votes
Time: 1h 45m
Welcome to the Venus Beauty Institute where love, innocence and sex are a sight to behold
Overview:
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.
Languages: French.
Countries:
France
ProductionCompanies: 
Tabo Tabo Films
Sofinergie 4
Movie: Venus Beauty Institute
Top 10 Billed Cast
Nathalie Baye
Angèle Piana
Bulle Ogier
Madame Nadine, la patronne
Audrey Tautou
Marie
Mathilde Seigner
Samantha
Samuel Le Bihan
Antoine DuMont
Jacques Bonnaffé
Jacques
Robert Hossein
L'aviateur
Claire Nebout
Mme Bouisse
Micheline Presle
Tante Maryse
Elli Medeiros
Mme Evelyne
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Overview
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.
Release Date
1999-02-03
Average
5.8
Rating:
2.9 startsTagline
Welcome to the Venus Beauty Institute where love, innocence and sex are a sight to behold
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