Why I liked Venus

• because Peter O'Toole gets the gleaming, soulful heart of a dirty, dirty old man
• because Jodie Whittaker's smoky scowl is as convincing as her legs
• because two old men dancing and weeping made me want to dance and weep
  
• because it has grimy, damp, poky interiors
• because love isn't always young, airbrushed and gorgeous
• because I should be so lucky. Lucky, lucky, lucky.