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8 ½ Women1999

If every man thinks of sex once every nine minutes, what does he think of the other eight?

8 ½ Women
8 ½ Women
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Peter Greenaway
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Theatrical121 Minutes
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About the film
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.
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