VENUS PETER

VENUS PETER is an exhilarating, impressive voyage into a child's imagination, shot in breathtaking settings in the Orkney Islands northwest of Scotland. Christened in sea water, the young Peter of the title grows up imagining he's a boat and fantasizing that his absent father is a captain-at-sea. Peter's world is somewhat enchanted, shaped by frightful old women who are suspicious of the sea and by his grandfather who fills him with awe and respect for the ocean and its creatures. The strangeness is heightened by the dramatic use of rich colors and the islands? wild landscape, and by a series of bizarre moments that often feel exactly like the sort of sights, seen in childhood, that one never forgets. VENUS PETER has a kind of magic that few films ever attempt.