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100 Movies #2 - Venus Beauty Institute

Feb 10, 2008
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I have no idea why I put this in my Netflix queue. Someone must have said something good about it - I tend to add to my queue while I'm reading blogs. It's not the kind of movie I'm particularly drawn to - it's essentially a character study. It's also subtitled French, but that's not such an obstacle. Again, I'm not sorry I watched it, but I finished it mostly with a sense of obligation because I'd started it. I kept waiting for something to happen.

I quote Netflix for what it's all about:

Unable or unwilling to find a long-term romance, aging hair stylist Angèle (Nathalie Baye) settles for the salon's distaff camaraderie and for living by proxy through her co-workers. But her life gets upended when a stranger -- a shaggy-haired, bohemian stud named Antoine (Samuel Le Bihan) -- abruptly declares his love for her. The guarded Angèle faces a dilemma: Should she take a chance on intimacy, or remain inside her protective shell?