8 Women
by Fran?ois Ozon
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Actor: Catherine Deneuve, Danielle Darrieux, Emmanuelle B?art, Fanny Ardant, Isabelle HuppertDirector: Fran?ois Ozon
Brand: Universal
Cinematographer: Jeanne Lapoirie
Writer: Fran?ois Ozon
Editor: Laurence Bawedin
Producer: Marc Missonnier
Producer: Olivier Delbosc
Producer: St?phane C?l?rier
Writer: Marina de Van
Writer: Robert Thomas
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); French (Original Language); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 111 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-02-11
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Universal Studios
Movie Reviews of 8 Women
Movie Review: bizarre mix of parlor murder mystery, cabaret, and lousy comedy
Summary: 1 Stars
I was very disappointed in this film. With such a stellar cast, I was expecting a really good psychodrama with interesting and perceptive twists.
Instead, you watch them sing (terribly), scream at each other (with very little humor that works), and run around in a fatuous investigation (unbelievably). The characters are so mutable that there is little consistency to them, and they make strangely abrupt transformations that make no sense. For example, Ardnt and Deneuve are fighting, perhaps murderously, and suddenly they start making out. Huppert, a dowdy spinster virgin, suddenly appears dressed to kill as a stunning sensual beauty. It adds nothing to the plot, doesn't fit with the characters, or resonate emotionally.
The whole thing is like a play you would see in an amateur theatre on vacation. But you have absolutely first-rate actresses, France's best, carrying on inanely. None of it worked for me.
Now it this kind of thing appeals to you, OK. But I saw no value in it at all. Not recommended.
Summary of 8 Women
Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 08/24/2004 Starring: Danielle Darrieux Run time: 111 minutesThe cream of France's cinema sirens star in the deliciously candy-colored 8 Femmes, a murder mystery speckled with ornate performances that play up the public image of the actresses themselves. Eight women find themselves snowbound in a house with a dead man--a man each of them (his wife, sister, sister-in-law, mother-in-law, daughters, housekeeper, and chambermaid) had reason to kill. Secrets tumble forth, accusations fly, catfights flare, and confrontations turn steamy, all accompanied by campy performances of 1960s French pop songs. At first, these musical numbers seem like pure kitsch, comic and entertaining, but over the movie's course, they become strangely touching. Catherine Deneuve, Danielle Darrieux, Virginie Ledoyen, Fanny Ardant, Emmanuelle Beart, Isabelle Huppert, Ludivine Sagnier, and Firmine Richard are all superb, investing their cardboard characters with a strange emotional resonance--and their costumes are exquisite. An entrancing piece of giddy fluff. --Bret Fetzer
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