8 Women

The best France has to offer! Ozons bow to the divas, Sirk and the (then) up-and-comming starlets. They dance! They sing! They kiss! What more can a cinephile wish for?

Adorable to watch. The theatrical staging made it even more entertaining.

Quite artificial due to the songs and the theatrical style.

Definitely something a bit different. As for plot and theme of murder in lonely countryside house, covers all main aspects(family issues, servant-master relationships, gay incidents) and some specific French ones (incest). Musical elements are nice and also give a bit of insight in characters. Culprit is well hidden till end and secrets that pour out with time get messier and keep your attention. I was a bit dazzled by acting though. It feels more like theatrical performance than a movie.

Odd musical murder mystery, elegantly directed. The eight actresses are all wonderful.

I laughed a lot throughout this film, but I found myself laughing at it much more than laughing with it. The musical numbers are ridiculous, the lesbian moments make no sense, and while the mystery is ocasionally interesting it's mostly just stupid. I know some people will say this was all on purpose, but that's not good enough for me.

One of my favorites! A locked room mystery in the French countyside. Secrets abound. The oversaturated colors and music numbers add something for all the senses.

8 Mulheres tinha sua première há 20 anos na França. Esse é um filme que estava adiando pra ver por essas duas décadas e fico feliz que finalmente o fiz, certamente é um dos melhores momentos do Ozon. Delicinha. BlurayRip no MakingOff.

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8 Women is an enjoyable Christie-esque murder-mystery that is unnecessarily a musical. The actresses are great, but the plot has a wry humour to it that makes it impossible to take seriously, and causes the pace to drag in several places. The film deals with greed and love as it masquerades tragedy with comedy. The ending parallels the entire film's ups-and-down motif, though what I suspect was meant to be a moral lesson comes across as a silly curtain call.

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Star Rating: ★★★1/2

I've never quite been able to get a grasp on Ozon's personality as a filmmaker, and i still don't, but as long as he's doing a ridiculously kitschy, Almodovar-esque, Sirk-ian melodrama/murder mystery/musical (!) i really can't complain. Everything about this is almost exactly in my wheelhouse, from the colors and costume design to the songs. Also, look at that cast, seriously.

A decent murder mystery plot interspersed with bizarre musical numbers. Each song reminds me of films from the late fifties / early sixties, which is the style the film seems to be going for. The experiment may have worked if the numbers advanced the plot but each is used instead to try and display the characters. As such they are easily forgettable and seem oddly out of place in the tale of sordid intrigue that is the actual plot.

how much you like this, probably depends on if you think Ozon meant all the idiotic plot turns as a black parody take on a Agatha Christie's plots or if it's meant to be taken straight on face value and therefor just a bad plotted movies. It's clear on which side I am

cuteness -especially Huppert-

OK, I don't know why I loved this so much but I did so just deal with it. When Emmanuelle Béart shook out her hair I nearly had a stroke.

I can't rant properly about this movie, without spoiling the plot. So I'll keep it short. I'm not that into 'musicals', and this one didn't alter that.

Somewhere between a classic whodunnit, a pastiche of the former, a stage play and a musical (except the songs, though sung in character, have little to with the story and don't advance any plot points). Odd, but enjoyable, though a stronger central mystery, better jokes and more memorable songs could have lifted it up a lot higher.

Gloriously entertaining mystery/musical spoof, filtered through Douglas Sirk sensibilities (in French no less!) may not add up to much, but gives every member of its hand-picked cast licence to have fun, throwing in garishly overdone sets and luscious costuming. Huppert and Deneuve are both terrific, but Ardant's deliciously bitchy character trumps them both. Again, it may strike many as much ado about much ado, but it always remains highly entertaining. Musical numbers are a scream!

"But while he reduces them to moving Barbie dolls, Ozon clearly loves his women. Or, as much as a catty drag queen can." - Ed Gonzalez

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François Ozon's weird, over-the-top film about eight women and a load of secrets is hyperbolic, unbelievable and sometimes even boring. The centric mystery is not interesting at all -however, some (or several) inspired quotes, great tunes and an all-star French cast almost outweigh the film's many flaws.

A study on hypocrisy, selfishness and exploitation in the form of a well-structured mystery brought to life by first-class acting from the female cream of French cinema. It's marvelous technically, with fantastic sets and costumes, a good soundtrack and an unbelievable finale, has the sweet aura of a theatrical play and will keep you guessing.

The deliberate staginess and theatricality -- it was adapted from a forgotten play by Thomas -- recall Alain Resnais's _Mélo_ and _Smoking/No Smoking_, and the intermittent outbursts of song recall that same director's _Life Is a Bed of Roses_ and _Same Old Song_. But Resnais, who always has more layers than a napoleon, was up to a good deal more in those films than just a campy celebration, a fluttering appreciation, of a Gallic gallery of screen divas and their arsenal of artifice.

"Light-hearted and droll - even if you think you don't like 'French' films, you'll adore this one."

Interesting and entertaining. The performances are quite something.

It's like watching a play on screen. ... Most of the shots, the build up and the humor confirm that feeling. ... Francoin Ozon has been one of my favourite French directors and with 8 femmes he keeps on holding to that position.

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A rather light comdy/musical/murder mystery starring some of the biggest names in French cinema ultimately works because of the wonderful chemistry between the actresses, even if some of the musical numbers seem bizzare. Isabelle Huppert comes off best as the seemingly dowdy spinster sister Augustine.

Slight but good. This is a dollhouse of a movie and one that succeeds in doing what it set out to do. Some musical numbers work more than others.

A great musical mystery from one of France's most talented directors.

An experiment misfired

This film is surprisingly funny. As it goes along it becomes increasingly obvious that it's actually both making fun of and paying homage to the sort of film it initially seems like it's going to be, and it has a lot of fun with it all in the process. The film constantly borders on silliness and kitsch, but it pulls through relatively unscathed. Different and amusing.