8 femmes is a film that displaces the time. Shot in an interior, like a play, is a bit 'in the style of Agatha Christie, a little' musical (the eight protagonists take turns singing a song and dance), a little 'drama and a bit' funny comedy. Characteristic of the director in question is to use and revisit classic styles that have marked the history of cinema. The film has the honor of intelligent jokes and manages to frame the psychology and the facets of the eight women protagonists. An exceptional cast composed of French actresses old and new generation: Deneuve, Huppert, Ardant, Beart, Darrieux.
The events that unfold in the villa in a day of snow, revolving around the death of the husband of Gaby (Catherine Deneuve), found dead in bed by the maid (Beart). Insulated from the snowy weather and the inability to communicate with the police (someone has cut the telephone wires) the protagonists try asking each other, to find the killer.
In reality besides the yellow, Ozon is looking for a pretext to explore the psychology of women and to address the close links women (resentments, envy, mother-daughter relationships, sexuality) that bind to each other, and it does reveal bits of Their lives one at a time, as sensations.
bitter comedy that recalls Cukor for the jokes and the irony, that smells of Hitchcock (bought it to make a movie but did not turn ever) for items related to the suspense and yellow, which is based to Truffaut's The man who loves women. A great film, which reveals to the international audience a film director, François Ozon, eclectic and free expression of his art.
9 / 10
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