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Dec 10, 1999 · 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).
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- Comedy, Drama
- Peter Greenaway
- 1999-12-10
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.
May 22, 1999 · 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).
Simato. Barbara Sarafian. Clothilde. Watchlist. After his wife dies, 55-year-old businessman Philip Emmenthal, at the prompting of his playboy son Storey, populates his Geneva villa with eight...
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- Peter Greenaway
- R
- John Standing
John Standing (Philip Emmenthal), Matthew Delamere (Storey Emmenthal) make up the lead cast. Philip becomes a widower and is overcome with severe grief after the death of his wife. Storey wants to ease his father’s grief by inspiring him to take another wife or girlfriend.
- (1.5K)
- Delux Productions
- Peter Greenaway
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.
8½ Women is a 1999 comedy-drama film written and directed by Peter Greenaway, and starring John Standing, Matthew Delamere, and Vivian Wu. The international co-production (the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and Germany) was entered into the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.
