Peter Greenaway - 8 1/2 Women (1999)
Peter Greenaway - 8 1/2 Women (1999)
DivX 5 672x400 23.98fps 719Kbps | English MP3 stereo 80Kbps | English Subs .sub | 2:00:43 | 700 MB
Comedy/Drama | Starring: John Standing, Vivian Wu, Toni Collette | "Golden Palm" Nomination, 1999
Following the death of the mother, a father and son open up a brothel in their Genevan estate after watching Fellini's "8 1/2".
Plot:
After his wife dies, 55-year-old 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. Philip throws off his strait-laced and repressed attitudes, immersing himself in pleasure. After about a year, the women begin to assert their own power. Side adventures pre-figure the household's breakup, and the women depart in one way or another, one at at time. Philip's fate is in the hands of Palmira, his favorite.
Peter Greenaway - 8 1/2 Women (1999)
Peter Greenaway - 8 1/2 Women (1999)
Peter Greenaway - 8 1/2 Women (1999)
Peter Greenaway - 8 1/2 Women (1999)
Peter Greenaway - 8 1/2 Women (1999)
Peter Greenaway - 8 1/2 Women (1999)
Actually, Greenaway has nearly always been laughing. It's just that many people fail to notice that. "8 1/2 Women", however, is different in that even the people who hate it (of which there will be plenty; it's Greenaway) will have no doubts that it is a comedy, and Greenaway's lightest-toned film yet.
It is a playful tribute to Fellini and Godard, and it features - prominently - understanding, affection and warmth, none of which are emotions one would have easily associated with Greenaway's previous work. (In an after-screening interview, he commented that age makes one want to look more at the better side of things.) Because this is still very much a Peter Greenaway film, the ways in which emotions such as filial love are going to be explored are going to be very quirky indeed; but to interpret the film's "taboo" scene as intended to shock is a disservice to the film, the director's intentions (and his ability to *truly* shock when he wants to - check "The Baby of Macon") and your own enjoyment.
Peter Greenaway - 8 1/2 Women (1999)
(No Mirrors!)