A Deneuve Dozen
8 WOMEN
DIRECTOR: FRANÇOIS OZON
FRANCE, 2002
“Working from Robert Thomas’ stage play and channeling Agatha Christie and Vicente Minnelli, Ozon directed this whodunit/who’s-who of French leading actresses as a genre mash-up of a musical comedy/murder mystery. Deneuve stars alongside Huppert, Ardant, Beart, Darrieaux, Ledoyen, and more as the titular ladies/suspects who gather in a country house at Christmastime in the 1950s, only to find the master of the house murdered. A sumptuous and rigorous derangement of plausibility, coherence, and proper taste ... is also pure—that is to say, innocent and uncorrupted—fun.”—A.O. Scott, New York Times. (111 mins.)