Average Rating: 6.9/10
Reviews Counted: 111
Fresh: 87 | Rotten: 24
Featuring some of the best French actresses working today, 8 Women is frothy, delirious, over-the-top fun.
Average Rating: 6.8/10
Critic Reviews: 30
Fresh: 24 | Rotten: 6
Featuring some of the best French actresses working today, 8 Women is frothy, delirious, over-the-top fun.
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A gaggle of mothers, wives, daughters, maids, and mistresses gather for a holiday homecoming at their country mansion -- and end up having to solve a murder-mystery -- in this musical-comic homage to studio-era "women's pictures" from acclaimed French director François Ozon. Partly inspired by George Cukor's 1939 classic The Women, 8 Femmes stars Catherine Deneuve as Gaby, a high-society matron just returned to her country house to celebrate Christmas with her husband; mother Mamy (Danielle
Sep 20, 2002 Wide
Feb 11, 2003
$3.0M
USA Films
All Critics (113) | Top Critics (30) | Fresh (87) | Rotten (24) | DVD (7)
Ozon's notion of derision is perfectly carried out by his multi-generational name cast.
There are any number of moments that fans of French cinema could only have dreamed of ever happening.
Ozon's is the art of the white lie, told in blinding color, and tinged with surprising truths.
A mess? You bet, but one that's not without its pleasures.
For pure camp, intentional or otherwise, this is right up there with The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
8 Women may not plumb the depths of the female psyche, but it's stylish and frivolous in the most profound ways.
An Agatha Christie drawing room mystery crossed with the '50s setting and melodrama of Douglas Sirk crossed with the musicality of Jacques Demy with some Aaron Spelling bitchery thrown in for good measure.
There cannot be many people who wouldn't want to pay to see Deneuve smash a bottle over the head of an old woman in a wheelchair.
Frothy, racy frivolity starring such French all-stars as Danielle Darrieux, Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Huppert and Emmanuelle Béart.
Klopt elementen van een Agatha Christie whodunnit, een frivole chansonmusical en de kleurrijke melodramas van Douglas Sirk op tot een luchtige souffle, als is de kooktijd wel wat lang.
This is a style of camp so broad that even the most bovine straight can get it.
Some may find Ozon's rigorously clever deconstruction of so many conventions a little too French for their tastes, but cineasts and worshippers of les femmes at their most fatales will find this farce wonderfully fierce.
Excepcional policial-comédia-drama-musical com um elenco fabuloso, direção de arte e figurinos notáveis e direção firme e elegante de Ozon.
In a film season dominated by male-oriented action flicks, 8 Women provides the feminine charm and sophistication to soothe the film-loving connoisseur in all of us.
The enfant terrible of French cinema, François Ozon's brave foray into the mind of not one, but eight, women is a gloriously-executed examination of what lies beneath the manicured façade of the female species.
How much viewers enjoy this depends on to what extent they're able to focus on the shining stars at the center while ignoring the narrative debris surrounding them.
The film starts to feel like decorative misogyny.
...the true spirit of the film is in the story of desperate women who will do desperate things to make themselves happy, no matter who they hurt.
The musical numbers are what ultimately undo the movie.
A fluffy, super saturated 50's chick murder mystery - with songs!
Why didn't anybody think of doing this kind of weird Bollywood musical murder mystery before? Maybe because it is a stupid idea.
Who killed the fun in 8 Women is the real blame game. Start nominating your suspects now.
Most of the ideas in 8 Women are similar to other things %u2013 and that's both the point and the delight of this strange confection, which can best be described as a highly theatrical musical-comedy version of Gosford Park.
A quirky murder mystery/who-done-it caper starring a femme fatale cast of French beauties to die for. The script is funny and engaging, the characters are over the top and exciting and the set, colours and little details are stylish and oozing with class. On top of all that, it's a musical!! That was a very pleasant
January 12, 2012Super Reviewer
I actually really enjoyed this movie. It was strange and they kept breaking out in song for no apparent reason. It was a movie I could recommend to that guy who always came into FYE and asked for movies that take place in one place (the movie takes place entirely in a house, almost in just one room). It's definitely
April 20, 2011Super Reviewer
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