This is a style of camp so broad that even the most bovine straight can get it.
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01/26/06
8 Women (2002)
77 %
Reviews Counted: 102 Fresh: 79 Rotten:23 Average Rating: 6.9/10
Consensus:
Featuring some of the best French actresses working today, 8 Women is frothy, delirious, over-the-top fun.
Runtime: 1 hr 51 mins
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, Marcel, is stabbed in the back, one of the eight women in the house must be the culprit. The youngest... [More]
Genre: Foreign Films
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Fanny Ardant, Emmanuelle Beart, Danielle Darrieux, Isabelle Huppert
Director: Francois Ozon
Screenwriter: Francois Ozon
Producer: Olivier Delbosc, Marc Missonnier
Composer: Krishna Levy
Screenwriter: Francois Ozon
Producer: Olivier Delbosc, Marc Missonnier
Composer: Krishna Levy
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12/15/03
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.
04/23/03
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12/03/02
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Each performance is beautifully controlled, notably Huppert's devastating comic turn as Augustine, and integrated into a seamless ensemble.
12/03/02
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12/02/02
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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
Leave your sense of reason at the door and surrender yourself to the oo-la-laughs.
11/11/02
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06/11/08
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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.
10/02/07
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.
09/17/03
Excepcional policial-comédia-drama-musical com um elenco fabuloso, direção de arte e figurinos notáveis e direção firme e elegante de Ozon.
07/25/03
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.
05/20/03
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
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03/07/03
Top Critic
...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.
02/16/03
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