Product Details

• Actors: Nelly Alard, Henry Jaglom, Melissa Leo, Suzanne Bertish, Daphna Kastner
• Directors: Henry Jaglom
• Writers: Henry Jaglom
• Producers: Judith Wolinsky
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Fox Lorber
• VHS Release Date: November 11, 1997
• Run Time: 108 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6304161514
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #458,948 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

For over three decades, Henry Jaglom has been traveling a cinematic path unlike any other director's: his noodling, searching, utterly un-commercial pictures (with dialogue largely improvised) are as personal as novels. Venice/Venice is vintage Jaglom, which will spell pleasure for his many fans and exasperation for nonbelievers. Jaglom plays a movie director visiting the Venice Film Festival--with footage captured during one of his visits there--whose romantic fling contrasts with his home life back in Venice, California. Jaglom's needy persona, and his unseemly tendency to linger over close-ups of his own teddy bear face, become tiresome here (he's wisely put others center-stage in subsequent films). But for all the dorm-room philosophizing, there is something dreamlike that emerges from this film as it nears its end. All the self-indulgent nattering does lead to something personal, and though the journey is something annoying, at least it's an authentic journey. --Robert Horton

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "Happily Ever After" in a nutshell, October 10, 2002

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LisaGator (Chicago, IL USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Venice Venice [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Wow - this is the first Henry Jaglom movie that I have seen, but you can bet I'll be seeing more. His interviews with the women and how the movies influenced their perceptions of how relationships "should be" was incredible. In almost every single interview segment, I had a little, "yup, that sounds right" experience. Yes, the romance was wonderful, as was the duality of the Venice, Italy life with the Venice, California life. And I had my own "wouldn't it be wonderful to be floating around on a canal in Venice" point of view. So I was doing exactly what he shows us the movies do! ;) Anyway, a wonderful film, I plan to buy it, and replay it whenever I feel the urge to run after that "perfect man who will sweep me away and solve all my problems."

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Jaglom 101, July 6, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Venice Venice [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This film allows the first time Jaglom viewer access to some of the director's best work, w/o the guessing usually involved in exporing an artist for the firsts time. A must for anyone serious about film.

4 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars sometimes even self-absorbed dilletantes hit home runs : ), May 2, 2000

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"vulcantouch" (fred & gladys' breakfast nook, downstairs by in the kitchen) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Venice Venice [VHS] (VHS Tape)

the only other jagfilms i've seen are hamptons & babyfever,neither of which are NEARLY so good. dualities (man/woman,movies/life, italy/l.a. etc.) resonated through this one poetically,accompanied as they were by that exQUISite music which i pray is released someday (both the score and the marshall barer/david colin ross song halfway thru)! a woman i showed this to remarked, "henry's a jerk, but he's a cool jerk." to which i'd add, "his flick may be bull#$@$, but it's marvelous, transporting bull@#$$." btw, v/v's washed-out light & color palette makes it ideal viewing on a sunny winter afternoon :) vt