What a terrific little foreign gem to watch . All the actresses involved were spot on in their acting and the movie moved along with a breezy and wonderful pace. As I watched the movie I noticed in one scene a picture of Ms. Denueve in her youth but she still looks radiant in this movie. The plot is been there done it but with a couple of twists and the musical numbers are wonderful two stand out the first with the mom and her daughters and the other was when the two daughters were in their room. I know some people do not like subtitles but to me I rarely notice and the movie was wonderfully entertaining. I highly recommend it to watch.

Eight women are stranded at a snow-bound country house and there's a dead body. Whodunit? This is one of those films that's so bad that it's good - to an extent. It's based on a play and it looks like a low-budget filmed stage play except for the high-priced cast of Who's Who of French actresses. The script is amateurish, the direction is sloppy, and the acting ranges from bad to terrible. What makes it bearable and a curiosity piece is the campiness (it touches on teen pregnancy, adultery, lesbianism, incest, and suicide) and the vampy songs, belted out of the blue by each of the women through the course of the film. Ledoyen and Sagnier have the catchiest tunes.

Who says murder mysteries can't be fun? Anyone who thinks every crime caper has to be on par with "The Silence of the Lambs" or "Seven" needs to take a look at Francois Ozon's film "8 Femmes." Eight women are stranded in a house with no phone and no way out. Normally this would be a good time for some hot chocolate around a roaring fire, but there's a problem: the man of the house has been murdered, and the culprit can only be one of them! "8 femmes" is wicked fun (though hardly containing anything worthy of an R rating). Fast moving, great acting, and a couple of neat twists make this an entertaining 111 minutes.The cast is compromised of France's most celebrated actresses. Isabelle Huppert. Fanny Ardant. Catherine Denueve. Emmanuelle Beart. All of them give superlative performances. Of special note are Isabelle Huppert as the bitchy Augustine, and Emannuelle Beart as the rather devious maid. The real scene stealer though is Fanny Ardant, as the dead man's sex pot sister. She oozes sexuality and delights in causing trouble.There's really one main problem with "8 Femmes," and it's a doozy, especially since it happens repeatedly. Ozon may be able to keep a playfully claustrophobic atmosphere and keep the audience on their toes, but he has a lot of trouble with the musical numbers. It's not that their bad, or poorly choreographed. It's just that when they start and end it cuts into everything and seems very jarring. The transitions between the music and the speech are terrible (though I liked how the characters knew that someone had just broken into song), and I wonder if leaving the music out would have gotten this film a 10.Still, as it is, "8 Femmes" is a fun watch.

Strange film with amazing casting and the sign of a great director. Exploration of a delicate universe, fragile, dangerous, dark and egocentric, definition of woman and trial of feelings, gestures and illusions. Fruit of a play in which nuances are more important than colors, games of memories and intentions more relevant than reality, dreams and desires as cages of Bovaric scenes.French taste and sweet shadows in manner of Agatha Christie. Fragments of a ambiguous world and old fires in morning light. A murder, duties and fear, small sins as protective wall, the other as pray, fight with yourself and splendid collection of sentimental guns, traps, expectation and delicate hate. The essential advantage- the presence of woman's secrets in the skin of Ozon's art.A cruel, nostalgic and subtle film with seductive air of old melodramas, satirical traces and ash circles in snow.