8 WOMEN

Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Huppert, Emmanuelle Beart, Fanny Ardant

Focus Features; Directed by Francois Ozon

Rated R; 108 Minutes; 2002

In the 1950’s the patriarch of a dysfunctional family Marcel is found stabbed to death in his room. There are eight women in his life who are all very probable suspects as there is a snowstorm and no one else is in the house. All of the characters - his wife Gaby, his daugthers Suzon and Catherine, his mother-in-law Mamy, his sister-in-law Augustine, his sister Pierette, the cook Chanel and the maid Louise – are shown to have a legitimate motive. Because the women are trapped in the house with no one else to blame, suspicions abound which begin to reveal various suspicions in their lives.

PROMOTION IDEA:

Show this film along with another great French farce such as The Dinner Game.