LSC Event Descriptions

October 17, 2003

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Rated R
103 minutes

8 Women (2002)
October 17, 2003 at 7:30 and 10:30pm in 10-250.

"Here it is at last, the first Agatha Christie musical."
      -- Roger Ebert, The Chicago Sun-Times. Read this review.

"Pure -- that is to say innocent and uncorrupted -- fun ... Forbidden love! Incest! Illegitimacy! Alcoholism! And in due course a pearl-handled revolver flashes out of a pink purse."
      -- A. O. Scott, The New York Times. Read this review.

Eight women, played by a veritable who's who of French cinema (including Catherine Deneuve, Emmanuelle Béart, Isabelle Huppert, and Ludivine Sagnier). Designer clothing, bright faces, and, lest we forget, a corpse with a knife in his back.

A parody of Hollywood musicals from the Technicolor era, this latest film from French director François Ozon (Swimming Pool, Water Drops on Burning Rocks) is a fun, light whodunit, punctuated by unexpected forays into song and dance. Everyone has a motive for the killing, but while we're looking for the murderess, let's have some fun first.

This program was made possible with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the French Ministry of Culture (CNC).

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