8 ½ Women
1999
If every man thinks of sex once every nine minutes, what does he think of the other eight?
- Peter Greenaway
- 2h 1m
- May 22, 1999 · Germany, United Kingdom, Luxembourg, Netherlands
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.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- May 22, 1999
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English, Italian, Japanese, Latin
- Countries
- Germany, United Kingdom, Luxembourg, Netherlands
- Production
- Delux Productions,Kasander & Wigman Productions,Continent Film GmbH,Movie Masters,Woodline Productions
- Cast
- John Standing,Matthew Delamere,Vivian Wu,Annie Shizuka Inoh,Toni Collette,Claire Johnston,Polly Walker,Amanda Plummer,Elizabeth Berrington,Don Warringtonand 40 more
- Director
- Peter Greenaway
- Writer
- Peter Greenaway
- Cinematography
- Sacha Vierny,Reinier van Brummelen
- Music
- Frank Loesser
- Budget
- $6,000,000
- Revenue
- $437,568
- IMDb
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