MOVIE · 1998
Dangerous Beauty
DramaRomance111 min
In 16th-century Venice, Veronica Franco is a sharp, penniless young woman whose love for nobleman Marco Venier runs into the hard rules of class and family. Catherine McCormack is Veronica, pushed by her mother toward the life of a courtesan, where wit, poetry, and social skill give her access to the city’s most powerful men. Rufus Sewell’s Marco remains the match she cannot simply choose, even as Veronica’s status rises. As her influence grows, so does the backlash around her, pulling romance, politics, and the Church into the same fight over who gets to speak and who gets condemned.
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