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8 ½ Women (1999)

8 ½ Women (1999)

Drama Comedy

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

Release Date: 1999, May 22
Directors: Peter Greenaway
Countries: Germany, United Kingdom, Luxembourg, Netherlands
Production: Delux Productions, Kasander & Wigman Productions, Continent Film GmbH, Movie Masters, Woodline Productions
Cast: Elizabeth Berrington, Amanda Plummer, Toni Collette, Tony Kaye, John Standing, Hairi Katagiri, Polly Walker, Vivian Wu, Dean Harrington, Katsuya Kobayashi, Don Warrington, Barbara Sarafian

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.

Keywords:

father son relationship loss of loved one illegal prostitution harem