Movie Review

Delta of Venus (1995)

Details Rated: Unrated; Length: 99 Minutes; Genres: Drama, Erotic; With: Costas Mandylor and Audie England

What's the difference between erotica, kitsch, and inadvertent comedy? When you're talking about Wild Orchid director Zalman King's latest movie about sex, Delta of Venus, the answer is ''Not enough.'' Based on several Anais Nin stories, Venus is supposedly set in 1940s Paris, where a pretty American writer (England) learns to love with abandon, but it looks like a 1987 jeans commercial. And video viewers get the Hobson's choice of a tamer, R-rated version, which means more boring narrative, or an unrated version, which means more sweatless sex.

Originally posted Mar 29, 1996 Published in issue #320 Mar 29, 1996 Order article reprints

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