Product: 8 Women (2002)
Rating: 5.0
full of references
I am not going to say anything about the DVD itself since I own the French one, and not this one.I would just like to comment on a few things said by the previous writers.This movie can be watched in a couple of ways.First, there is indeed a murder plot. And you can spend the whole movie trying to find out who the culprit is. You have eight women that might have murdered Marcel, but only one has done it.This is the first level, and, to me, not the most interesting one.Secondly, there are a lot of references to the Cinema, with a capital C. For instance, Franois Ozon says (in the bonus) that Isabelle Huppert's hair color (when she goes down the stairs) refers to Rita Hayworth's hair color. And he referred also to a lot of American movies (like Cukor's Women for ex.), and also to some French movies.You can't watch this movie without thinking of Truffaut, for instance. When Gaby -Deneuve- says to Suzon -Ledoyen-: "te voir près de moi est une joie et une souffrance" -seeing you near me is a joy and a pain-) is a clear reference to him (for those of you, who wonder why, you gotta watch the Mississipi Mermaid, and the Last Metro).And, at last, I would not say that this movie is lesbian or anything like that. Clearly, this movie has a sexual side. And Franois Ozon likes playing with homosexuality in his movies (he himself is openly gay). All the characters have a perversion, and all the characters have a problem with sex: there's a virgin, a spinster, a lesbianism, a bisexual, and two girls that are hetero but who might be attracted to women. It is definitely not a sexual movie, even though sex is underlying.So, all in all, this is a movie I really liked but it is a bit weird. Either you love it, or you hate it.