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8½ Women. 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. [2]
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May 22, 1999 · From Peter Greenaway, one of Britain's most controversial directors, 8 1/2 Women is a laconic black comedy that examines the age-old phenomenon of male sexual fantasy, its roots and consequences. A rich businessman from Geneva acquires eight and a half pachinko parlors in Kyoto, Japan. They are run by his son who is fascinated by earthquakes.
Jun 7, 2000 · Some of the women are less baroque archetypes, and one, Palmira (Polly Walker), is erotic in a casually modern way, more flesh and blood than obscure object of desire.
May 22, 1999 · Peter Greenaway. Director, Screenplay. After the death of his wife, wealthy businessman Philip Emmenthal and his son Storey open their own private harem in their family residence in Geneva (they get the idea while watching Federico Fellini's 8½ and after Storey is "given" a woman, Simato (Inoh), to waive her pachinko debts).
Mar 29, 2002 · In a defining early moment in Peter Greenaway's bloodless, joyless, appalling 8 1/2 Women, an aging widower and his grown-up son, prompted by a screening of Fellini's 8 1/2, muse about how ...
It's a dark comedy filled with low-key, macabre humor and occasional bubbles of melodrama. Like all other Greenaway movies, 8 1/2 Women transpires in a surreal setting that reflects our reality as seen through a looking glass darkly. Greenaway's characters exist in a vacuum, and the consequences of their actions, if any, rarely extend beyond ...
