Movie · 1999

8½ Women

If every man thinks of sex once every nine minutes, what does he think of the other eight?

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Absurdist erotic comedy Grief driven fantasy Decadent domesticity Patriarchal power games Female agency Theatrical stylization

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Release
1999
Runtime
121 min

Synopsis

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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