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8 Women (2002)
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Reviews Counted:111
Fresh:87
Rotten:24
Average Rating:6.9/10
Consensus: Featuring some of the best French actresses working today, 8 Women is frothy, delirious, over-the-top fun.
Theatrical Release:Sep 20, 2002 Limited
Box Office: $3,006,423
Synopsis: From French director Francois Ozon, 8 WOMEN is a character drama and musical set in a country home during Christmastime in the 1950s. Though the atmosphere seems light and festive, when the host,... [More]
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Fanny Ardant, Emmanuelle Beart, Danielle Darrieux
Director: Francois Ozon
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10/05/02
This is a style of camp so broad that even the most bovine straight can get it.
01/26/06
The film starts to feel like decorative misogyny.
03/07/03
Ozon finds women aesthetically pleasing, but has no desire to get close.
09/19/02
It's more of a graduate seminar kind of fun than a Singin' in the Rain kind of fun.
10/03/02
Top CriticI can't remember one witty line or one moment of great acting.
12/04/02
But while he reduces them to moving Barbie dolls, Ozon clearly loves his women. Or, as much as a catty drag queen can.
09/11/02
The sum of the movie’s parts amounts to a starstruck director entertaining himself more than he entertains us.
09/19/02
Ozon and his actresses work so hard at being funny that they seldom are.
11/15/02
The whole is a sort of curdled cassoulet that annoys rather than amuses, bores rather than bites and tires rather than titillates.
10/21/02
Who did it is less important to Ozon than a lampooning of the Sirkian aesthetic of pure artifice, but there's too much irony in the air for him to spin anything but the most brittle of confections.
09/20/02
Top CriticInept, tedious kitsch that even at its best feels like John Waters minus the joie de vivre.
09/20/02
Top CriticAlthough it starts off vaguely amusing, 8 Women grows progressively sour, curdled by the filmmakers' bad faith and lack of compassion.
09/19/02
The musical numbers are what ultimately undo the movie.
01/26/03
The film winds up as a cutesy vanity project, though it makes none of the participants look good.
09/26/02
Unfortunately, 8 Women falls short of Sirk’s standard.
10/05/02
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.
04/16/03
Who killed the fun in 8 Women is the real blame game. Start nominating your suspects now.
01/10/03
Simplistic, standard two hours of non-intellectually stimulating amusement.
08/29/02
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