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| 8.1/2 Women [1999] | ![8.1/2 Women [1999]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/418TFQVFTEL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Peter Greenaway
Actors: John Standing, Matthew Delamere, Vivian Wu, Amanda Plummer, Polly Walker
Studio: Pathe Distribution
Category: Video
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 18817
Format: Dolby, Pal, Surround Sound
Languages: English (Original Language), Italian (Original Language), Japanese (Original Language), Latin (Original Language)
Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Media: VHS Tape
Running Time: 116 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Discs: 1
EAN: 5011531898351
ASIN: B00004T10D
Theatrical Release Date: 1999
Release Date: June 12, 2000
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: VERY CLEAN CASE AND VHS FAST DISPATCH FROM U.K REF 190 R
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 Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters. October 25, 2006
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
Despite being hissed at Cannes this film is still well worth seeing and improves on repeated viewings.
Greenaway has his protagonist ask if all directors make films to fulfil their own sexual fantasies, and we must assume (unless he is pulling our collective leg) proceeds to do exactly that, as Emmenthal pere et fils assemble a harem of female stereotypes in their mansion. As well as the obvious Fellini reference, the film harks back to "A Zed and Two Noughts" in a number of respects, in the sort of intertextual game-playing Greenaway fans will know and love.
As with all Greenaway's work since The Falls, the photography is ravishing. No-one makes films which look better. It's unfortunate that he's not found a musical collaborator to equal Michael Nyman, but you can't have everything. He may not be sweeping the art-house scene before him these days (in fact there's not much of a UK art-house scene left these days), but in the end, slightly below-par Greenaway is better than 99% of directors can even aspire to.
 Only for masochists July 21, 2004
28 out of 57 found this review helpful
This was one of those films that occasionally appear in your list of Amazon recommendations. Unfortunately, this time I actually decided to buy the film. This film makes no sense and is definitely one for those with masochistic tendencies. Avoid like the plague and then some. Unfortunately it's not possible to give this minus 50 stars.
Greenaway descends June 24, 2004
56 out of 78 found this review helpful
Peter Greenaway is a remarkably pure artist, unconfined by the conventions that define most modern art even in the negative sense of ironic comment. His women are beautiful wraiths animated by improbable and alien desires, his men a rogues gallery of peacocks, rogues, and victims. Witty words and dense visual beauty substitute for plot and recognizable human character.8 1/2 Women is the first of Greenaway's films that fails for visual and verbal invention. Lacking the bedrock of solid cliche that makes mediocre films bearable as familiar comforting stories this film reveals the sterility of Greenaway's sympathetic instinct and the irrelevance of his intellectual impulses. His last effort, The Pillow Book, was more beautiful but less interesting than earlier works. Comparing the vivacious clarity of The Draughtsman's Contract with 8 1/2 Women's turbid vacuity suggests that Greenaway's powers peaked early, and that the arc of his descent grows steeper with age.
 Greenaway's homage to Fellini's 8 1/2 August 21, 2000
10 out of 14 found this review helpful
A simple tale, told in a simple fashion. The usual visual trickery used by greenaway are at a minimum as he emotively traces the outlines of a father and son embracing the figure and sexuality of the 8 1/2 women who live in their home as their concubines. Again Greenaway has shown his unpredictability, creating a film that on first viewing could be marked as sexist or masoginistic, yet with time the beauty of the characters and their hummble desires leaves haunting images in your mind.
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