An oddity, not without charm.
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12/02/02
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.
Runtime: 1 hr 51 mins
Genre: Comedies
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
Reviews for 8 Women
Top CriticLeave your sense of reason at the door and surrender yourself to the oo-la-laughs.
11/11/02
Top CriticThere'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
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
Top CriticHighly recommended.
11/30/02
Each performance is beautifully controlled, notably Huppert's devastating comic turn as Augustine, and integrated into a seamless ensemble.
12/03/02
There cannot be many people who wouldn't want to pay to see Deneuve smash a bottle over the head of an old woman in a wheelchair.
12/10/08
Top CriticThis is a style of camp so broad that even the most bovine straight can get it.
01/26/06
Top CriticFun, fanciful, French froth.
09/27/02
This Ozon comes much closer to the nasty little prankster that I liked so much with Sitcom.
09/27/02
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
The result is shrill and charmless.
09/20/02
There are any number of moments that fans of French cinema could only have dreamed of ever happening.
11/15/02
Proves to be a pleasant romp.
10/13/02
Offers as much delicious enjoyment to the viewer as it obviously did to the cast and crew when they were assembling it.
09/18/02
An affectionate, sophisticated parody of Technicolor melodramas and musicals of the 1950s -- with a some mock-Agatha Christie thrown in for fun.
09/24/02
I love this film.
09/20/02
Every one of the actresses seems to have been directed to chew scenery and aim for over-the-top, and the end result is very, very funny.
09/27/02
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
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
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