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Plot

Meeting Venus is based on a play cowritten by the film's director, Istvan Szabo. Glenn Close plays a celebrated Swedish opera star Karin Anderson who is slated to appear in an internationally-telecast production of Tannhauser. Ms. Anderson balks at the notion of working with obscure Hungarian conductor Zoltan Szanto. The much-anticipated production may never get off the ground, thanks to labor-management difficulties, intramural jealousies, and clashing egos. Admidst all this chaos, the mismatched Anderson and Szanto fall in love. Filmed in Budapest, Meeting Venus was far from a box-office hit thanks in great part to an inadequate advertising campaign; hopefully it will gain the wide audience it deserves on videocassette. (PS: Glenn Close's singing is dubbed by real-life opera luminary Kiri Te Kanawa. We tell you this because the lyp-synching is done so well that you might actually believe that Close is performing those arias herself).
MPAA Rating:
Genre(s):
Drama
Run Time:
121min.
Theatrical Release Date:
11/17/1991
Distributor(s):
Warner Brothers
Director(s):
István Szabó
Starring:
Glenn Close , Niels Arestrup , Erland Josephson , Macha Meril
Tone:
Deliberate,Light,Reflective
Keywords:
Hungary,Sweden,artist,backstage,behind-the-scenes,betrayal,bloopers,conductor [music],conflict,extramarital-affair,high-society,opera,politician,romance
Country of Origin:
USA (11-17-1991)