8 femmes

is visually lush with its rich production design and divine drop-dead designer dresses.....starring some of great luminaries of French cinema.....The entire cast is splendid....the script witty, with Deneuve spitting out lines (to Huppert's character) like 'I am beautiful and rich;.... ... Full Review

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.....Everyone has a motive and a song to sing in this unique mystery/comedy/musical.....Though the songs are beautifully delivered.... ... Full Review

Part of the movie's fun is watching this dialectic play out.....Calculated and perverse, 8 Women injects Ozon's volatility into Sirk's recondite aesthetic.....The line isn't just a fitting capper to the movie, but avows a morbid manifesto as well..... ... Full Review

8 Women is a remarkable piece.....it's a stylistic modern made visual throw back with all the glitzy glamour of that era the women burst into catchy fruity songs!....The tale starts simple enough..... ... Full Review

The reactions to 8 Women will vary strongly. It may be that some people will find its style innovative, its concept intriguing and its plot amusing. ... Full Review

It should be so simple.The technology exists to distribute old movies, and there are people out there who want to see them. And yet every movie buff has had the experience of reading up on some great film or... ... Full Article

The relationship, as glimpsed in these partial, pointed vignettes, is a chronicle of failed connections and miscommunication (with reference to relevant articles from the matrimonial sections of the French Civil Code). ... Full Article

Directed by: Francois Ozon Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Huppert, Danielle Darreaux, Emmanuelle Beart, Fanny Ardant, Virginie Ledoyen, Ludivine Sevnier, and Firmine Richard Francois Ozon is a resourceful and gifted director. ... Full Article

This article was published on 11.21.02 . François Ozon's slight, campy, bubbly vision of a sort of French Agatha Christie mystery-musical set in the 1950s is a smorgasbord of gnarled relationships, confessions and tainted pasts. ... Full Article

A smash hit in France, 8 WOMEN is now poised to ignite American audiences. Adapted from the play, 8 WOMEN has an ensemble cast of French icons, including Isabelle Huppert, Fanny Ardant and Catherine Deneuve. ... Full Article

Charlotte Rampling to the performance of her career in last year's Under the Sand , naughty French auteur François Ozon tipped his hat to the kings of artifice (Sirk, Sternberg and Fassbinder) with Water Drops on Burning Rocks . ... Full Article