"Eight Beauties": Eight women, the good show keeps singing

Maynard 2022-03-23 09:03:17

In the outskirts of France in the 1950s, a happy family living in a luxury villa was welcoming the arrival of Christmas on a snowy day in the deep winter. The eldest daughter who was away went home early in the morning, which made the atmosphere warm and infinite. After a while, when the maid went upstairs to wake up the host, she found that the host was stabbed in the back and fell into a pool of blood on the bed. The panic-stricken female relatives were in a mess, the road was blocked by heavy snow, and they found that the telephone line was deliberately cut off. On the night of the murder, there was no dog barking. For a time, the mystery was full of murderous intentions. After the trapped female relatives regained their calm, they immediately realized that the murderer was probably one of the family members. Grandma, mother, aunt, aunt, sister, sister, and two maids. At a time when Dad's business status was on the verge of bankruptcy, and it was time to fly separately, everyone had the possibility of being suspected, and after analysis and evidence collection, they were all ruled out one by one. And the real murderer is absolutely unthinkable, unexpected and unexpected ending.

The film was directed by François Ojon, a French director who is good at shooting gay themes. Once the film was released, it was sought after by many film festivals and finally won the Berlin Silver Bear Award. It is a thrilling and suspenseful story of a big story in a small space with three generations of powerful French actresses, old, middle and young. All kinds of reasoning and analysis are accompanied by the singing and dancing clips in the gorgeous scenes, creating a cruel yet pleasing artistic conception. Perhaps, this is also an artistic murder film that only the French can make. The director also missed the opportunity to join the comrade stage, which made the whole plot ups and downs icing on the cake.

For those who have always liked spoilers, this film is a genre film that must not be spoiled. It's like a brain teaser, it's not too late to reveal the answer. In the process of guessing the answer, the process of stirring the brain is the most attractive. However, it is limited to genre films that are very interesting for guessing and beware of spoilers. By the way, I really don't like a bunch of brainless people who talk about "spoilers" at every turn, as if all the movies in the world are spoiled as a crime and contradicted. If you take a feature film alone, even if you tell you the whole story, will it lose the value of watching it? Not to mention comedies and action films, not to mention foreign ones, it is a common thing to watch Zhou Xingchi and Bruce Lee's films over and over again. A truly classic and endearing film has nothing to do with spoilers. Only those vulgar films that only earn gimmicks and have no connotations will shout about the low-level logic of not spoiling. It is precisely the popularity of such low-level logic that makes all kinds of bad films popular today. There are some small-budget films that specialize in cleverness, and there are also large-scale European and American blockbusters with huge investment. Whenever the audience is deceived and regretted, it is actually caused by the bad consequences of preventing spoilers. For those who really know how to watch movies, it is recommended that you learn more about spoilers before watching. Waste of money and money is the most important luxury.

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8 Women quotes

  • Catherine: Suzon, I forgot one thing. I heard a strange sound. I looked through Augustine's keyhole, and I saw her standing at the mirror with something shiny. I thought nothing of it, but now I'm sure she was sharpening a knife!

    Augustine: You liar! I was holding my mother-of-pearl comb and cleaning it.

    Gaby: At 3:00 am?

    Augustine: Combs never sleep!

  • Suzon: Didn't you say you saw no-one?

    Augustine: I forgot. I went for a drink.

    Gaby: Or a prowl around Marcel's room! What happened?

    Catherine: You'd know if you still slept with Dad.

    Gaby: I'm being judged by my own child!

    Pierrette: That's why I never had any.

    Gaby: Just admit no man ever asked you to.