Movies

December, 1991

Rehearsals of a Wagner opera in Paris set the stage for Meeting Venus (Warner), an adulterous love story for grownups, particularly for grownups who might like to heighten illicit passion with excerpts from Tannhäuser. Glenn Close, as a worldfamous diva, has her singing dubbed by opera queen Kiri Te Kanawa, but the energetic, hit-the-spot acting is her very own. Close portrays soprano Karin Anderson, who simultaneously undertakes her role in Tannhäuser and an affair with her tempestuous Hungaria...