Venus Peter (1989)

Directed by

Ian Sellar

Genre

drama film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 34m

Rating

5.3 of 10 from 6 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This Scottish film follows a young boy living in Orkney after his mother dies. It shows his experiences with family and the local community over a year.

slow-burnmelancholicatmosphericreflectivequietintimatecoastalnostalgic

What happens

Venus Peter is a 1989 Scottish film directed by Ian Sellar and produced by Christopher Young for Young films. The film is an adaptation of the novel A Twelvemonth and a Day by Christopher Rush. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival. It was filmed in Orkney, in the North of Scotland. The film crew paid members of the Orkney community to act as extras in the film. In 1999 Richard Mowe, curator of film at the National Museum of Scotland, chose the film as one of his top twenty Scottish films of the century. Japanese rock band Venus Peter are named after the film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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