Les Avatars de Vénus (2007): cast, story & where to watch

Released in 2007, Les Avatars de Vénus is a notable film directed by Jean-Jacques Lebel.

What it’s about. The process leading to the making of the film-installation Les Avatars de Vénus goes back thirty years to the thousands of images I began picking up - from news stands, bookshops, libraries, museums, flea markets as I travelled around the world, drawing, photographing, analyzing, filming and remembering what I saw. Finally, I collected a giant image–bank of different incarnations of Venus spreading across time and space, coming from all continents, all civilizations, all epochs, respecting the logic of each one of them, regardless of the arbitrary ideological hierarchy established by academicians between High Art and Low Art. I chose to mix art history and popular imagery, Renaissance iconography and commercial advertisements, religious propaganda and common pornographic icons, movie stars and classical as well as non-occidental sculpture, all fetishes being complementary.

Where to watch. Streaming options change often. See the full, country-by-country breakdown on our where to watch Les Avatars de Vénus page.