8 ½ Women (5.5)

Movie · 1999 · 1 h 55 min · 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.

Directed by: Peter Greenaway

Starring John Standing, Matthew Delamere, 邬君梅, 伊能靜, Toni Collette, Claire Johnston, Polly Walker, Amanda Plummer, Elizabeth Berrington, Don Warrington

Stream in the US