8 ½ Women

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

• Rated 5.5 out of 10
• Movie
• 1999
• 2h 1m
• Drama
• Comedy

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.

Director

Peter Greenaway

Starring

John Standing, Matthew Delamere, Vivian Wu, Annie Shizuka Inoh