The film starts to feel like decorative misogyny.
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03/07/03
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
US 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
Reviews for 8 Women
Top CriticIt’s a whodunit in stilettos, where the stilettos are dangerous, sharp objects handled without care by women on the edge of a murderous breakdown.
12/27/02
Top CriticThe line between wacky offbeatness and just plain silliness is sadly crossed a few too many times.
10/02/02
Top CriticAn Agatha Christie drawing room mystery crossed with the '50s setting and melodrama of Douglas Sirk crossed with the musicality of Jacques Demy with some Aaron Spelling bitchery thrown in for good measure.
12/28/08
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 CriticFrothy, racy frivolity starring such French all-stars as Danielle Darrieux, Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Huppert and Emmanuelle Béart.
08/07/08
Ozon's notion of derision is perfectly carried out by his multi-generational name cast.
06/11/08
Top CriticKlopt 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
This is a style of camp so broad that even the most bovine straight can get it.
01/26/06
Top CriticSome 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
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 CriticHow 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
...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
The musical numbers are what ultimately undo the movie.
01/26/03
A fluffy, super saturated 50's chick murder mystery - with songs!
01/25/03
Why didn't anybody think of doing this kind of weird Bollywood musical murder mystery before? Maybe because it is a stupid idea.
01/24/03
Who killed the fun in 8 Women is the real blame game. Start nominating your suspects now.
01/10/03
Most of the ideas in 8 Women are similar to other things %u2013 and that's both the point and the delight of this strange confection, which can best be described as a highly theatrical musical-comedy version of Gosford Park.
01/07/03
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