Product: 8 Women (2002)
Rating: 5.0
8 women... 8 suspects
This movie by Francois Ozon is a gorgeous pearl in french Cinema because it invites, the time of a motion picture, 8 great french actresses. Some of them, whom have never played together before such as Catherine Deneuve and Isabelle Huppert, take pleasure in presenting themselves in their own archetypes and to blow them into pieces in front of us.As for its plot, the movie consists of a winter day where 8 women, locked in a mansion, try to guess which one of them murdered the landlord. Is it his wife (Catherine Deneuve), one of his daughters (Ludivine Sagnier and Virginie Ledoyen), his sister-in-law (Isabelle Huppert), his mother-in-law (Danielle Darrieux), his house cleaning lady (Firmine Richard), his maid (Emanuelle Beart) or his sister (Fanny Ardant)?Along with popular french songs (one for each actress) and of scandalous surprises, Francois Ozon also shows us how, in his special features he co-adapted with Marina De Van a play by Robert Thomas (that was judged unfashionable by one of the producers) and gave it a better plot line and better twists.Personally, it is also a movie which enabled me to discover other directors with whom they have worked (such as Michael Haneke, Lars von Trier, Francois Truffaut, Claude Chabrol, Christophe Honore, Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud, etc.) and to discover movies that are different and that do not follow the rules of Hollywood cinema.As such, I think this popular movie is a good introduction to European cinema.