Venus (1929)

Original title

Vénus

Directed by

Louis Mercanton

Genre

drama film, silent film

Country

France

Runtime

1h 40m

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A love story set in France involving a woman and two men. The film uses music and sound effects but no spoken dialogue to tell its tale of romance and difficult choices.

bittersweetromanticold-fashionedstylizedquietclassicalnostalgic

What happens

Venus (French: Vénus) is a 1929 French sound drama film directed by Louis Mercanton, and starring Constance Talmadge, André Roanne, and Jean Murat. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using both the sound-on-disc and sound-on-film process. It is based on a story by Jean Vignaud. An English version was distributed by United Artists in the United States. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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