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8 1/2 Women Directed by Peter Greenaway Starring John Standing, Matthew Delamere, Vivian Wu, Annie Shizuka Inoh, Barbara Sarafian, Kirina Mano, Toni Collette, Amanda Plummer, Natacha Amal, Manna Fujiwara, Polly Walker, Elizabeth Berrington, Myriam Muller, Don Warrington, Claire Johnston Arrgghh! It's a Peter Greenaway film! The auteur who brought us postmodern trash like Prospero's Books and The Pillow Book is back with another genitalia-filled, misogynistic vision of despair. Philip Emmenthal is a rich middle-aged man whose wife has just died. His son, in trying to comfort him, suggests that Philip take a lover to minimize the pain. He finds this to be so satisfying that he finds eight ladies and sets up his own private harem for him *and* his son. What follows is a cruel treatise on the nature of sexual power, along with painterly views of naked women and banal dialogue on everything from getting older to cultural differences (the women range from Japanese to Italian to everything in between) to art-house film directors. This last bit of self-referentiality would be bad enough, but Greenaway invokes Fellini's masterpiece 8 1/2 as some sort of inspiration, which is both inaccurate and insulting. Not that many Tollbooth viewers would likely pick 8 1/2 Women off the video shelf, but I thought you should be properly warned, just in case. It's a despicable piece of garbage, with only arch, pretentious musings to offer. J. Robert Parks 9/15/2000
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