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Hudson was appreciated ("every time Hudson comes into a scene, Shell gets a welcome jolt of energy") and also the ending "where it feels like the film is, finally, actually breaking out of its shell to get into some more madcap, meatier fun. […] That [the end] gets appropriately squishy and violent is a nice reward to cap off the whole thing ...
The Hora originally had "low classical sandals", and the collar on the mantle she holds out is an afterthought. The hair of Venus and the flying couple was changed. There is heavy use of gold as a pigment for highlights, on hair, wings, textiles, the shell and the landscape. This was all apparently applied after the painting was framed.
Aphrodite (/ ˌ æ f r ə ˈ d aɪ t iː / ⓘ, AF-rə-DY-tee) [a] is an ancient Greek goddess associated with love, lust, beauty, pleasure, passion, procreation, and as her syncretized Roman counterpart Venus, desire, sex, fertility, prosperity, and victory. Aphrodite's major symbols include seashells, myrtles, roses, doves
Shell is a 2012 independent drama film directed by Scott Graham. It stars Chloe Pirrie as Shell, a 17-year-old girl who lives and works at a petrol station in the Scottish Highlands . The film is a broader adaptation of a previous work by Scott Graham entitled with the same name released in 2007.
My Life in Ruins (released as Driving Aphrodite in the United Kingdom) is a 2009 romantic-comedy film directed by Donald Petrie and starring Nia Vardalos, Richard Dreyfuss, Alexis Georgoulis, Rachel Dratch, Harland Williams and Alistair McGowan.
Mira Katherine Sorvino (/ ˈ m iː r ə s ɔːr ˈ v iː n oʊ /; born () September 28, 1967) is an American actress. She won the Academy Award and Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Woody Allen's Mighty Aphrodite (1995).
The Goddess of Love (Italian: La Venere di Cheronea, French: Aphrodite, déesse de l'amour), also known as Aphrodite, Goddess of Love, is a 1957 Italian-French epic adventure film directed by Fernando Cerchio and Viktor Tourjansky, and starring Belinda Lee, Massimo Girotti, and Jacques Sernas.
The critical consensus reads, "Poignant, profound, and utterly heartwarming, Marcel the Shell with Shoes On is animated entertainment with real heart." [ 18 ] Metacritic , which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 80 out of 100 based on 42 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".