Movie
8 ½ Women
1999 · 121 min
A cool, arch, talky provocation that keeps you at a distance, more interested in ideas and bodies than feelings.
- Directed by
- Peter Greenaway
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy
- Starring
- John Standing, Matthew Delamere, Vivian Wu
- Tagline
- If every man thinks of sex once every nine minutes, what does he think of the other eight?
- Overview
- After his wife dies, middle-aged 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 Storey manages Pachinco palaces. Each has a distinctive personality: a nun, a child bearer, a gambler, a student of Kabuki, a horsewoman with a pet pig, a maid. As a year passes, the women begin asserting their own power.
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- Directed by
- Peter Greenaway
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy
- Starring
- John Standing, Matthew Delamere, Vivian Wu
