Product: 8 Women (2002)
Rating: 1.0
bizarre mix of parlor murder mystery, cabaret, and lousy comedy
I was very disappointed in this film. With such a stellar cast, I was expecting a really good psychodrama with interesting and perceptive twists.Instead, you watch them sing (terribly), scream at each other (with very little humor that works), and run around in a fatuous investigation (unbelievably). The characters are so mutable that there is little consistency to them, and they make strangely abrupt transformations that make no sense. For example, Ardnt and Deneuve are fighting, perhaps murderously, and suddenly they start making out. Huppert, a dowdy spinster virgin, suddenly appears dressed to kill as a stunning sensual beauty. It adds nothing to the plot, doesn't fit with the characters, or resonate emotionally.The whole thing is like a play you would see in an amateur theatre on vacation. But you have absolutely first-rate actresses, France's best, carrying on inanely. None of it worked for me.Now it this kind of thing appeals to you, OK. But I saw no value in it at all. Not recommended.