8 ½ Women
1999 · 121 min · Director: Peter Greenaway
Show plot summary (may contain spoilers)
After his wife dies, fifty-five-year-old businessman Philip Emmenthal (Sir John Standing), at the prompting of his playboy son Storey (Matthew Delamere), populates his Geneva villa with eight and a half concubines. Three are from Kyoto, Japan, 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, and a maid. Philip throws off his strait-laced and repressed attitudes, immersing himself in pleasure. After about a year, the women begin to assert their own power. Side adventures pre-figure the household's break-up, and the women depart in one way or another, one at at time. Philip's fate is in the hands of Palmira (Polly Walker), his favorite.
Emotional fingerprint
8 ½ Women (1999) — Movie. Top emotional signals: Confusion 30%, Humor 25%, Disturbing 20%. Source: AI estimate. Shares describe emotional signal, not percentages of people. Your experience may differ. How we measure
- Confusion30%
- Humor25%
- Disturbing20%
- Surprise15%
- Curiosity10%
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The strongest emotional signals are Confusion, Humor, Disturbing. Genres: Comedy, Drama. AI estimate.
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Emotional journey
- Humor
- Sadness
- Disturbing
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No dominant emotion
Dominant emotion: Curiosity
Dominant emotion: Sadness
Dominant emotion: Humor
Dominant emotion
| % | Approximate minute | Dominant emotion | Overall intensity | Humor | Sadness | Disturbing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2.5 % | ≈ 3′ | Curiosity | 48 % | 22 % | 25 % | 17 % |
| 7.5 % | ≈ 9′ | Sadness | 58 % | 23 % | 46 % | 21 % |
| 12.5 % | ≈ 15′ | Sadness | 63 % | 31 % | 56 % | 31 % |
| 17.5 % | ≈ 21′ | Sadness | 63 % | 40 % | 46 % | 36 % |
| 22.5 % | ≈ 27′ | Humor | 58 % | 43 % | 24 % | 38 % |
| 27.5 % | ≈ 33′ | Humor | 49 % | 41 % | 8 % | 30 % |
| 32.5 % | ≈ 39′ | Humor | 46 % | 41 % | 5 % | 24 % |
| 37.5 % | ≈ 45′ | Humor | 48 % | 41 % | 5 % | 29 % |
| 42.5 % | ≈ 51′ | Humor | 48 % | 40 % | 5 % | 33 % |
| 47.5 % | ≈ 57′ | Humor | 48 % | 41 % | 5 % | 31 % |
| 52.5 % | ≈ 64′ | Humor | 48 % | 41 % | 8 % | 31 % |
| 57.5 % | ≈ 70′ | Humor | 50 % | 40 % | 11 % | 36 % |
| 62.5 % | ≈ 76′ | Humor | 53 % | 40 % | 11 % | 39 % |
| 67.5 % | ≈ 82′ | Humor | 53 % | 36 % | 19 % | 35 % |
| 72.5 % | ≈ 88′ | Sadness | 54 % | 35 % | 28 % | 31 % |
| 77.5 % | ≈ 94′ | Humor | 54 % | 40 % | 21 % | 31 % |
| 82.5 % | ≈ 100′ | Humor | 51 % | 40 % | 16 % | 30 % |
| 87.5 % | ≈ 106′ | Humor | 54 % | 36 % | 29 % | 25 % |
| 92.5 % | ≈ 112′ | Sadness | 55 % | 34 % | 40 % | 21 % |
| 97.5 % | ≈ 118′ | Humor | 48 % | 33 % | 32 % | 17 % |
Cinderella
Rags to riches: The emotional tone rises from negative to positive.
Riches to rags: The emotional tone falls from positive to negative.
Man in a hole: The tone falls, then recovers.
Icarus: The tone rises, then falls.
Cinderella: The tone rises, falls, then rises again.
Oedipus: The tone falls, rises, then falls again.
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Cast
Storey Emmenthal
Simato
Mio
Giulietta/Half Woman
Giaconda
Simato's Brother
Marianne, Emmenthal Maid
Mourner
Mourner
Mourner
Undertaker
Details
- Directed by
- Peter Greenaway
- Written by
- Peter Greenaway
- Type
- Movies
- Released
- 1999
- Runtime
- 121 min
- Country
- United Kingdom, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Germany
- Ratings
- Feels mostly
- Confusion
- Data updated
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