I can't remember one witty line or one moment of great acting.
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12/04/02
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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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Reviews for 8 Women
Each performance is beautifully controlled, notably Huppert's devastating comic turn as Augustine, and integrated into a seamless ensemble.
12/03/02
An oddity, not without charm.
12/02/02
Highly recommended.
11/30/02
There's just enough of a hint at something interesting beneath the surface to make you wish Ozon had actually had the nerve to really go for it.
11/28/02
Cheesy and implausible, pink-cheeked and mad, 8 Women is a hysterical and purposefully vulgar film — a cynical shock tactic that nevertheless argues for the unsinkable dignity of the human beast.
11/18/02
Ozon and his actresses work so hard at being funny that they seldom are.
11/15/02
There are any number of moments that fans of French cinema could only have dreamed of ever happening.
11/15/02
Leave your sense of reason at the door and surrender yourself to the oo-la-laughs.
11/11/02
Ozon's is the art of the white lie, told in blinding color, and tinged with surprising truths.
11/10/02
A delectable, frothy, often over-the-top 1950s murder mystery by director Francois Ozon.
11/09/02
A mess? You bet, but one that's not without its pleasures.
11/06/02
Top CriticTaking three of your favorite drag queens and some alcoholic contraband to this movie equals a windfall of instant camp.
10/25/02
For pure camp, intentional or otherwise, this is right up there with The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
10/25/02
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
Proves to be a pleasant romp.
10/13/02
8 Women may not plumb the depths of the female psyche, but it's stylish and frivolous in the most profound ways.
10/12/02
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10/11/02
Like all things sweet, 8 Women is an acquired taste, a feast for the eyes but less of a treat for the ears.
10/10/02
A sly blend of Douglas Sirk melodrama and Jacques Demy musical; a playfully reconfigured crackerjack murder mystery as thoroughly engrossing as it is lovingly contrived.
10/10/02
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