Search results
8 ½ Women: Directed by Peter Greenaway. With John Standing, Matthew Delamere, Vivian Wu, Annie Shizuka Inoh. Following the death of a mother, a father and son open up their very own harem in their Genevan estate after watching 8½ (1963).
- (4.2K)
- Comedy, Drama
- Peter Greenaway
- 1999-12-10
After his wife dies, 55-year-old businessman Philip Emmenthal, at the prompting of his playboy son Storey, populates his Geneva villa with eight and a half concubines. Three are from Kyoto, where...
- (38)
- Peter Greenaway
- R
- John Standing
8 + 1 ⁄ 2 Women is a 1999 comedy-drama film written and directed by Peter Greenaway and starring John Standing, Matthew Delamere, and Vivian Wu. An international co-production of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and Germany, it was entered into the 1999 Cannes Film Festival .
Thus, many of these archtypical women respond more to Emmenthal than his son. Greenaway provides a detail-rich tableaux of intangible theories. Earthquakes and tumbling coins remind us that love, like a game of chance, is erratic and unstable.
8½ Women Film Stills, Official Movie Posters, Pictures, Wallpapers, Behind the scenes & More
8½ Women movie review by Crissa-Jean Chappell P eter Greenaway's cerebral, sumptuous movies (which include The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover and Pillow Book ) look at cinema as a text -- not to be "read" but visually interpreted outside the word-bound conventions of storytelling.
In 'The Cook, The Thief...', each separate room in an elaborate restaurant has a color scheme of it's own, affecting the color of the character's clothing. '8 1/2 Women' makes a brief attempt at combining various elements, showing pieces of the screenplay with insets of pachinko parlors.
- DVD
