PUNTUACIÓN EN IMDb
5,6/10
4,2 mil
TU PUNTUACIÓN
Tras la muerte de su esposa y madre, un hombre y su hijo fundan un burdel en la casa familiar en Génova tras ver "8 y medio" de Fellini.Tras la muerte de su esposa y madre, un hombre y su hijo fundan un burdel en la casa familiar en Génova tras ver "8 y medio" de Fellini.Tras la muerte de su esposa y madre, un hombre y su hijo fundan un burdel en la casa familiar en Génova tras ver "8 y medio" de Fellini.
- Premios
- 2 nominaciones en total
Annie Shizuka Inoh
- Simato
- (as Shizuka Inoh)
Pol Hoffmann
- Mourner
- (as Paul Hoffmann)
Ann Overstall Comfort
- Mourner
- (as Ann Overstall)
Argumento
¿Sabías que...?
- CuriosidadesToni Collette said Peter Greenaway chose her by accident for the role of Griselda. "I went in for another part and I had just had my head shaved and I had a Buddha hanging around my neck. Afterwards I thought, 'This is going to teach me to go to an audition looking like that'. " In fact Greenaway chose her for playing a woman who is blackmailed into serving on a brothel and posing as a lascivious nun. In the role, she was required not merely to appear nude but with a shaven pubis. "Peter Greenaway's odd, but very interesting. And he let me try everything I suggested," added Collette.
- Citas
Philip Emmenthal: How many directors do you think use films to fulfill their sexual fantasies?
Storey Emmenthal: Most of them, I think.
- ConexionesFeatures Fellini 8½ (1963)
- Banda sonoraSosaku Yoshiwara
(Kabuki music)
Written by Hirokazu Sugiura
Reseña destacada
The 1st third of the film is densely textured with text and image overlays (as in his last few films). The effect reminds me of nothing more than the collages of Tom Wesselman and to some extent the paintings of Sigmar Polke. The interactions of the many layers is quite masterful & I especially like the way that everything, including actors dialogue and plot are treated equally as texture.
Each section of the film begins with a text overlay of the scene description from the script. The full text is never on screen long enough to be read in its entirety. This reinforces the sense of story and dialogue as texture... of text as texture.
The 2nd third of the film moves away from the visual overload mode as the theme of collecting sexual fantasies (represented by the women in the harem built by the Father and Son) comes into focus. It reminds me a bit of the collage-novels of Max Ernst in that it hangs a string of reveries on the framework of linear narrative... but the narrative is really just an excuse for manipulating images.
The 3rd third becomes a bit turgid, probably because the pattern of collecting women (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8...) has become obvious by this time. In fact the film shows itself for what it really is.... a catalogue of desires. It is not particularly erotic though it represents a list of fantasies... whatever the subject is, it still retains the character of a list. This has the effect normalizing the erotic. One no longer questions whether the pleasures depicted are "normal" or "perverse"... they all become equal... a decorative pattern.... in much the same way that the dialogue resembles a complex pattern more than it does naturalistic speech.
In many ways it reminds me of De Sade's "120 days of Sodom" (an old Surrealist favorite) which I also find to be as un-erotic as a list. As one of the characters in the film states: (it simply) "follows the fantasies to their logical conclusion". It seems to be more of an intellectual exercise aimed at unshackling desire... it does not seem to be aimed at provoking desire (in the viewer).
There are, however, many poetic passages. During a scene in which one of the women is shaved bald the father and son pick up clumps of hair and attempt to describe the smell:
"it smells like canaries...'
"like brown sugar taken out of a damp paper bag..." &tc.
The images are also poetic. My favorite is a japanese woman clad in a very red kimono singing nasally in front of a very blue door & next to a very pink pig.
The sons (apparent) ability to invoke earthquakes (orgasms?) is also an interesting poetic touch.
Each section of the film begins with a text overlay of the scene description from the script. The full text is never on screen long enough to be read in its entirety. This reinforces the sense of story and dialogue as texture... of text as texture.
The 2nd third of the film moves away from the visual overload mode as the theme of collecting sexual fantasies (represented by the women in the harem built by the Father and Son) comes into focus. It reminds me a bit of the collage-novels of Max Ernst in that it hangs a string of reveries on the framework of linear narrative... but the narrative is really just an excuse for manipulating images.
The 3rd third becomes a bit turgid, probably because the pattern of collecting women (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8...) has become obvious by this time. In fact the film shows itself for what it really is.... a catalogue of desires. It is not particularly erotic though it represents a list of fantasies... whatever the subject is, it still retains the character of a list. This has the effect normalizing the erotic. One no longer questions whether the pleasures depicted are "normal" or "perverse"... they all become equal... a decorative pattern.... in much the same way that the dialogue resembles a complex pattern more than it does naturalistic speech.
In many ways it reminds me of De Sade's "120 days of Sodom" (an old Surrealist favorite) which I also find to be as un-erotic as a list. As one of the characters in the film states: (it simply) "follows the fantasies to their logical conclusion". It seems to be more of an intellectual exercise aimed at unshackling desire... it does not seem to be aimed at provoking desire (in the viewer).
There are, however, many poetic passages. During a scene in which one of the women is shaved bald the father and son pick up clumps of hair and attempt to describe the smell:
"it smells like canaries...'
"like brown sugar taken out of a damp paper bag..." &tc.
The images are also poetic. My favorite is a japanese woman clad in a very red kimono singing nasally in front of a very blue door & next to a very pink pig.
The sons (apparent) ability to invoke earthquakes (orgasms?) is also an interesting poetic touch.
- elag
- 23 jun 2000
- Enlace permanente
Selecciones populares
Inicia sesión para calificar y añadir a tu lista para recibir recomendaciones personalizadas
- How long is 8 ½ Women?Con tecnología de Alexa
Detalles
- Fecha de lanzamiento
- Países de origen
- Idiomas
- Títulos en diferentes países
- Ocho mujeres y media
- Localizaciones del rodaje
- Empresas productoras
- Ver más compañías en los créditos en IMDbPro
Taquilla
- Recaudación en Estados Unidos y Canadá
- 424.123 US$
- Fin de semana de estreno en EE. UU. y Canadá
- 92.000 US$
- 29 may 2000
- Recaudación en todo el mundo
- 437.568 US$
Contribuir a esta página
Sugerir un cambio o añadir el contenido que falta
Principal laguna de datos
By what name was 8 mujeres y ½ (1999) officially released in India in English?
Responde