Featuring some of the best French actresses working today, 8 Women is frothy, delirious, over-the-top fun. Read critic reviews
8 Women
2002, Comedy/Crime, 1h 48m
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At an isolated mansion in the snowy countryside of 1950s France, a family is gathered for the holiday season. But there will be no celebration -- their beloved patriarch has been murdered! The killer can only be one of the eight women closest to the man of the house. Comedic situations arise with the revelations of dark family secrets. Eight women. Each is a suspect. One of them is guilty. Which one is it?
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Rating: R (Some Sexual Content)
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Musical
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Original Language: French (Canada)
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Director: François Ozon
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Producer: Olivier Delbosc, Marc Missonnier
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Writer: François Ozon, Marina de Van, Robert Thomas
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Release Date (Theaters): original
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Box Office (Gross USA): $3.1M
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Distributor: BIM Distribuzione, Mars Distribution, UGC-Fox Distribution, Argentina Video Home, Focus Features
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Sound Mix: Dolby SR, DTS, Dolby Stereo, Surround, Dolby A, Dolby Digital
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Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)
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A great cast (obviously) and I appreciate the deliberate homage to mid-20th century melodrama.
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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 not a movie for everyone but if you like quirky foreign films, give it a chance.
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So bad it's good. With IMDb genre tags of Musical, Comedy, and Crime, it pretty much has to be. The songs are farcical nonsense - all character songs, nothing to further the plot - and the cinematography is staid, but I'm pretty sure that's intentional. Nevertheless, it's nice to see all these beautiful legends of French cinema camping it up. Isabelle Huppert and Fanny Ardent are scrumptious. I want Emmanuelle Beart's face. <i>Silence of the Lambs</i>-style. Just cut it off and wear it.
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Engaging whodunit set in roughly the 1930's as 8 women are trapped one snowy day together after Catherine Deneuve's husband is discovered murdered in his bed. Once forced to confront each other, enough skeletons come barging out of the closet to re-enact the undead army in <i>Jason and the Argonauts</I>. This is a real treat for French cinema fans with a dream cast including Deneuve, the stunning Emmanuelle Beart, Virginie Ledoyen, then-newcomer Ludivine Sagnier, and scene-stealing Isabelle Huppert as an uptight spinster. Everyone is solid and enjoying themselves as the tone never veers into heavy drama, despite the adult themes. The audience is soon clued into this when the first musical number is absurdly sprung 20 minutes in! That's right, this parlor murder mystery features a song for each of the ladies to perform, which they do with their own voice a la <i>Moulin Rouge</i>. The lyrics shed a little light on each character but are essentially inconsequential, the songs are mere vaudevillian diversions. Some might find these interludes ridiculous, which they are and in almost any other movie I would be rolling my eyes too, but for whatever reason I enjoyed these flights of fancy. They all know how to deliver a tune! Much backstory is overlooked and the way the film ends is not completely satisfying, but this amusement park attraction is well worth the ride.
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