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Product DescriptionCatherine mccormack plays veronica franco the real-life courtesan who used her influence over the most powerful men in europe to change her own life and the course of world events. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 02/08/2005 Starring: Catherine Mccormack Rufus Sewell Run time: 114 minutes Rating: R Directo
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Catherine mccormack plays veronica franco the real-life courtesan who used her influence over the most powerful men in europe to change her own life and the course of world events. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 02/08/2005 Starring: Catherine Mccormack Rufus Sewell Run time: 114 minutes Rating: R Director: Marshall Herskowitz
Although it was unfortunately ignored during its brief theatrical release, this sumptuously seductive production is that rarest of cinematic breeds, the (barely) respectable guilty pleasure. Combining historical fact with hysterical anachronisms of language and mannerism, it's been tailored for maximum contemporary appeal but maintains a lush, romantic feel for its factual 16th-century tale of Venetian love, lust, and political repression. Catherine McCormack (Mel Gibson's ill-fated bride in Braveheart) delivers a star-making performance as the "dangerous beauty" who becomes a skillful courtesan to pursue her forbidden love for a dashing Venetian senator (Rufus Sewell). It's all rather silly in a high-toned fashion, and the film turns dour when the church intervenes with a Scarlet Letter-like papal inquest. But the movie's joyously ribald vitality is utterly irresistible, and the casting of McCormack with Jaqueline Bisset (as her mother and courtesan mentor) is a stroke of pure genius. Merchant-Ivory would've made a smarter film from this material, but it probably wouldn't be nearly as entertaining. --Jeff Shannon
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