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"Meeting Venus"
1991
Directed by Istvan Szabo

An Hungarian, French and Great Britain co-production.   Istvan Szabo's first English-language film is the erotic story of an opera star/seductress played by Glenn Close who sets her sights on a young conductor played by Niels Arestrup. The torrid romance is played against the romantic music of Richard Wagner and against the world of opera--full of its bizarre characters, power mongering and power plays, lovers, wives, ex-lovers and ex-wives and unabashed melodrama.  121 minutes.