Clue meets Gosford Park, an airy musical murder mystery with style and flair to spare.
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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
One of the year's most beguiling films...it has the fizz of fine champagne and delivers a wonderful kick.
09/23/02
This theatrical whim is like a dessert so rich it's almost inedible but too irresistible to put down.
09/22/02
Every seemingly insignificant, color-coded fragment of the picture's makeup coheres into a satisfying whole.
09/21/02
For pure camp value, there are a lot of elements in 8 Women that warrant a look...
09/21/02
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 CriticA movie that begins as something of a hoot and turns into an ever-expanding assortment of delights.
09/20/02
This film would be worth watching for no other reason than to see so many stars of French (and international) cinema on one screen.
09/20/02
Sometimes the singing is weak. Sometimes the movements are really iffy. But these actresses exude so much charm and they are trying so hard that you can’t help but to love them and their efforts.
09/20/02
The result is shrill and charmless.
09/20/02
Sit back, relax and watch some of the world's best actresses kick up their heels and have a great time doing it.
09/20/02
The secret to enjoying 8 Women is to check your analytical mind at the popcorn counter and settle back for almost two hours of cinematic mischief.
09/20/02
Drop-dead pretty and confidently assembled, it's a shameless, extravagant charmer -- at first. As the movie goes on, it goes deeper, too, until the bleak melancholia that lurks beneath the surface violently breaks through.
09/20/02
I love this film.
09/20/02
Inept, tedious kitsch that even at its best feels like John Waters minus the joie de vivre.
09/20/02
Top CriticOzon whips up performances of this stellar cast to good effect.
09/20/02
Indefensible, cynical, even grotesque; it is also pure -- that is to say innocent and uncorrupted -- fun.
09/19/02
Top CriticAs much fun as you should be allowed to have in the dark while still maintaining possession of your clothes.
09/19/02
Although it starts off vaguely amusing, 8 Women grows progressively sour, curdled by the filmmakers' bad faith and lack of compassion.
09/19/02
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