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8 Women

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8 Women	comment	8 Women is a French musical comedy/murder mystery film released in 2002, directed by François Ozon and based on the play by Robert Thomas. It stars Catherine Deneuve, Fanny Ardant, Isabelle Huppert, Ludivine Sagnier, Virginie Ledoyen, Emmanuelle Béart, Danielle Darrieux and Firmine Richard.The film is a whodunnit set in The '50s in a large country residence, as a family and its servants are preparing for Christmas, when the master of the house is discovered dead in his bed, with a dagger stuck into his back. The murderer must be one of the eight women in the house at the time, and in the course of the investigations each has her own tale to tell and secrets to hide.The original French title, 8 femmes, was chosen to distinguish it from the 1972 play titled Huit femmes.Remade in 2021 in Italy as 7 Women and a Murder.
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8 Women / int_121b3725	type	Age Lift
8 Women / int_121b3725	comment	Age Lift: In Thomas' play, Pierrette is 35 years old. In this film, she's played by Fanny Ardant, who was past 50 at the time, so it's implied that Pierrette is now roughly the same age as Gaby (who's 45 in the play).
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8 Women / int_12dd1d4c	type	Rape as Drama
8 Women / int_12dd1d4c	comment	Rape as Drama: Suzon reveals to Catherine that her pregnancy is Marcel's doing. She doesn't elaborate more than that, but the uncharacteristic venom in her delivery all but states it was anything but consensual. That, and the fact that while she believed Marcel was her father, he knew she wasn't really his child, a fact he may have exploited to clear his conscience.
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8 Women / int_130436b9	type	Annoying Younger Sibling
8 Women / int_130436b9	comment	Annoying Younger Sibling: Augustine to Gaby, with her childish tantrums. Suzon and Catherine get along much better, but even they get into a fight when Catherine gets a bit too nosy about her elder sister's sex life.
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8 Women / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
8 Women / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Augustine looses it when she learns that her mother killed her father, tries to throttle her and later has a breakdown, probably the first genuine one since the beginning of the movie, and cries to Gaby that she wasted her life. It motivates her to get a makeover and become a more worldly woman.
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8 Women / int_15395adc	type	The Mistress
8 Women / int_15395adc	comment	The Mistress: Louise had been sleeping with Marcel for five years prior, and got hired as a maid for easier access.
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8 Women / int_154aa477	type	Big, Screwed-Up Family
8 Women / int_154aa477	comment	Big, Screwed-Up Family: Six of the eight women are related in some way or another (the exceptions are Louise and Chanel, the maids), and the unspoken issues between them and their patriarch come out through the course of the film.
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8 Women / int_1777688d	type	Genre Savvy
8 Women / int_1777688d	comment	Genre Savvy: Catherine, being a character in a work of mystery fiction herself, is fond of comparing the situations that arise to the cliches of the mystery novels she so enjoys reading. As it turns out, it was she who orchestrated the entire mystery.
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8 Women / int_19fe3478	type	Daddy's Girl
8 Women / int_19fe3478	comment	Daddy's Girl: Catherine is very attached to her father Marcel, and he considers her the only one he can rely on. This is what leads Catherine to hatch a scheme to expose the other seven women for what they are.
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8 Women / int_1ba17583	type	The Ghost
8 Women / int_1ba17583	comment	The Ghost: Jacques Farnoux is never seen but is a character of some import as he's Marcel's business associate who drove him to bankruptcy and therefore contributed to his depression. He's also having affairs with Gaby and Pierrette and was planning to run off with the former to Mexico.
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8 Women / int_1badfb3a	type	The Heart
8 Women / int_1badfb3a	comment	The Heart: Suzon, who keeps some semblance of peace among the women by stopping them from delving too deeply into their quarrels with each other and keeping them focused on the investigation. If she weren't around there would probably be a lot more cat-fighting.
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8 Women / int_1daa7fce	type	In the Back
8 Women / int_1daa7fce	comment	In the Back: Marcel is found with a knife on his back, which leads the women to rule out that he killed himself.
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8 Women / int_20dc0291	type	Curtain Camouflage
8 Women / int_20dc0291	comment	Curtain Camouflage: Catherine is a master of this, as she saw all the other women's interactions with Marcel the night before from behind a curtain in his study for several hours without getting found out.
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8 Women / int_23c132d9	type	Beneath Suspicion
8 Women / int_23c132d9	comment	Beneath Suspicion: The culprit is Catherine, the youngest (still a child) among the women. Clearly the other women didn't expect her to be it, considering how little they questioned her. Although, she is the culprit, but not the murderer because the victim was never dead.
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8 Women / int_23dcc97f	type	Circling Monologue
8 Women / int_23dcc97f	comment	Circling Monologue: Pierrette is rather fond of walking circles around Gaby while speaking to her, which could be taken as a kind of predatory flirtation in light of later events.
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8 Women / int_25bc8511	type	Generation Xerox
8 Women / int_25bc8511	comment	Generation Xerox: Gaby became pregnant with Suzon out of wedlock. Suzon repeats this, which leads to her calling Gaby out for judging her for it when she went through the same thing.
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8 Women / int_2740531a	type	She Cleans Up Nicely
8 Women / int_2740531a	comment	She Cleans Up Nicely: Augustine suddenly decides to put on an old dress of her sister's and have a makeover. When she presents herself, everyone present is surprised at the transformation and compliments her for it.
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8 Women / int_275a13d1	type	Half-Sibling Angst
8 Women / int_275a13d1	comment	Half-Sibling Angst: Catherine is distressed and doesn't want to believe it when her older sister Suzon tells her they have different fathers.
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8 Women / int_281de59f	type	Extremely Short Timespan
8 Women / int_281de59f	comment	Extremely Short Timespan: The story takes place in just one day.
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8 Women / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
8 Women / int_2a7b0247	comment	Could Say It, But...: During Suzon's questioning, Louise drops the information that Chanel plays cards, fakes feeling guilty about revealing it, and after claiming she's not a snitch, easily reveals who Chanel sees at night with no more pressure than Catherine saying they won't tell anyone. Augustine pseudo-reluctantly reveals that Gaby was always asking Marcel for money after a few seconds of claiming she'll never speak ill of her sister.
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8 Women / int_2bb06191	type	Adaptational Sexuality
8 Women / int_2bb06191	comment	Adaptational Sexuality: None of the characters were lesbians (nor implied to be anything other than straight) in Thomas' play. This change affects Chanel the most, as her "plausible motive" was originally that she was angry at Marcel and Pierrette for losing a lot of money to them at cards, while in the film it's because Chanel loves Pierrette and suspected she had a relationship with her own brother, which Chanel was jealous of.
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8 Women / int_2dd8ee0e	type	French Maid
8 Women / int_2dd8ee0e	comment	French Maid: Louise is the young and comely maid of the household. She behaves cheekily to everyone around her, is a bit brazen regarding sex, and turns out to be sexually involved with her employer and wants to be involved with Gaby as well. Although it's interesting that her maid outfit is much more modest than the standard.
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8 Women / int_2e6a41e0	type	Gratuitous English
8 Women / int_2e6a41e0	comment	Gratuitous English: When Catherine is unveiling the whole plot, at one point she randomly says "That is the question" in English.
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8 Women / int_2eb2d56d	type	Adaptational Late Appearance
8 Women / int_2eb2d56d	comment	Adaptational Late Appearance: Because the film excises the introductory conversation between Chanel and Louise, they're no longer the first characters to appear but the third and fifth, respectively. This has a significant effect on Louise, since her character is more initially mysterious than in the play as a result.
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8 Women / int_2fef0c01	type	Twisted Christmas
8 Women / int_2fef0c01	comment	Twisted Christmas: The family should be having a wholesome gathering for the Christmas festivities, but instead they have to figure out whodunnit after finding their patriarch murdered.
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8 Women / int_323fd510	type	Everyone Is a Suspect
8 Women / int_323fd510	comment	Everyone Is a Suspect: All the women were present in the house at some point during the previous night, and the fact that the guard dogs didn't bark rules out the possibility that a home-invading stranger did it. Coupled with the fact that the women all have plausible motives for wanting Marcel dead, they all suspect and accuse each other.
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8 Women / int_3437ee2c	type	Inheritance Murder
8 Women / int_3437ee2c	comment	Inheritance Murder: It's discussed that the fact that Gaby inherits Marcel's fortune in case of his death makes her plausible as the murderer.
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8 Women / int_358d6f63	type	Anachronistic Soundtrack
8 Women / int_358d6f63	comment	Anachronistic Soundtrack: Despite the 1950's setting, the characters sing songs released in the 60's at the earliest. The only exception may be "Il n'y a pas d'amour heureux", which started out as a poem published in 1944, and was set to music by George Brassens in 1953.
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8 Women / int_3bdf690b	type	Curtain Call
8 Women / int_3bdf690b	comment	Curtain Call: The film ends with a shot of all the women standing side by side, holding hands and facing the camera as if acknowledging an audience.
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8 Women / int_3de32c52	type	Unrelated in the Adaptation
8 Women / int_3de32c52	comment	Unrelated in the Adaptation: Because in the play the plot point about Gaby's lost love didn't exist, Marcel really was Suzon's father in that version of the story. Not so here, which also affects her degree of kinship with Catherine (here they're half-sisters) and Pierrette (here she's her step-aunt).
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8 Women / int_40cad744	type	Flower Motifs
8 Women / int_40cad744	comment	Flower Motifs: The opening credits (and promotional materials) present the eight actresses with a certain flower which symbolizes their characters. They also tend to wear the flowers' colors. The violet for Mamy. Violets are associated with mourning and death, fitting the character's advanced age and the reveal that she killed her husband (in fact, in the end she's the only character who's confirmed to have ever killed someone). The tiger orchid for Gaby. Orchids are associated with beauty, which Gaby is not lacking. That it's a tiger orchid brings to mind felines; Gaby is most of the time aloof, but there is a passionate side lurking beneath, so she could be said to have a feline temperament (this is reinforced by her leopard pattern coat). Orchids are also associated with status and elegance, fitting Gaby as the refined, wealthy lady of the house. The achiote and its fruit annatto for Augustine. The fruit inside the prickly seed pods reflects Augustine's own prickly personality overshadowing her love for her family, as well as repression. The red rose for Pierrette. Red roses are symbols of romantic, passionate love, which Pierrette has made it her profession to distribute without any shame (and she even enjoys it). Plus, her attraction to Gaby, which she is not afraid of expressing. The sunflower for Chanel. Chanel has a warm personality like the sun the flower is associated with. On the negative side of things, the sunflower also means unhappy love; Chanel has to cope with Pierrette's rejection of her feelings. The white orchid for Louise. Again the connotations of beauty shared with Gaby, the white orchid also symbolizes mystery and secrecy, as Louise is having an affair with Marcel without Gaby knowing, while also nurturing a crush on her mistress. The pink rose for Suzon. This one stands for a more gentle, innocent love than Pierrette's red rose. Suzon is probably the nicest of the eight and has the most understanding attitude towards the many secrets that come out. The daisy for Catherine. It represents youth and innocence; Catherine is the youngest and most childlike of the eight, and her love for Marcel verges on blind naivety.
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8 Women / int_424feb18	type	That Was Not a Dream
8 Women / int_424feb18	comment	That Was Not a Dream: Mamy briefly thinks the murder and everything since was just a dream after she wakes up from being knocked out.
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8 Women / int_44f5d199	type	Pretty in Mink
8 Women / int_44f5d199	comment	Pretty in Mink: Gaby wears a fur-trimmed coat and then a mink stole, which serve as symbols of her status as the wealthy mistress of the household; the mink is continuously stroked by Pierrette in her attempts to seduce Gaby. Augustine also wears a mink stole to heighten her glamorous appearance when she breaks out of her spinster getup.
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8 Women / int_4523420b	type	Love Dodecahedron
8 Women / int_4523420b	comment	Love Dodecahedron: Gaby and Marcel are married. Marcel's sister Pierrette and Gaby are both having affairs with the same man, who is Marcel's business partner, and later Pierrette shows interest in Gaby and they kiss. Marcel is having an affair with the maid Louise, who is also interested in Gaby. Gaby's sister Augustine is interested in Marcel. Gaby's daughter Suzon turns out to have been another man's daughter, and also she is pregnant with Marcel's child. The housekeeper Chanel is in love with Pierrette.
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8 Women / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
8 Women / int_4720744e	comment	Cut Phone Lines: Suzon tries calling the police after they find Marcel dead, but Augustine finds that the line is cut, which is another contributing element to their isolation in the house.
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8 Women / int_4782e60f	type	Jerk with a Heart of Jerk
8 Women / int_4782e60f	comment	Jerk With A Heart Of Jerk: Mamy did not kill her husband because he was abusing her or her daughters. By her own admission, he was a wonderful man. She just didn't love him and divorce was heavily frowned upon.
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8 Women / int_4b1afa0d	type	Spiteful Spit
8 Women / int_4b1afa0d	comment	Spiteful Spit: Augustine thinks Gaby has stolen her shares and physically attacks her for it. The others break them up, so Augustine resorts to spitting on Gaby instead.
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8 Women / int_4b316d47	type	Break the Cutie
8 Women / int_4b316d47	comment	Break the Cutie: Catherine may have bitten off more than she can chew.
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8 Women / int_4d8ff0c	type	Snowed-In
8 Women / int_4d8ff0c	comment	Snowed-In: Played with; it certainly complicates the whole situation, but none of the characters are actually locked in until the culprit secretly chains the gates of the estate and ruins the car's engine. The snow is just the added bonus.
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8 Women / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
8 Women / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Catherine reveals that Marcel faked his death with her help. Then she runs to his bedroom to see him committing suicide, aghast at the true nature of the women in his life. Not that he's a sympathetic character, though...
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8 Women / int_532a8261	type	Bookworm
8 Women / int_532a8261	comment	Bookworm: Catherine is described as staying up all night reading mystery and adventure novels. Augustine makes a show of disapproving of this, but she's covertly into romance novels.
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8 Women / int_598513bb	type	Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling
8 Women / int_598513bb	comment	Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Gaby is icily down-to-earth and rational and tries to take care of her family even if she can't stand them, while Augustine is rather childish, overly dramatic and makes a burden of herself. Catherine takes joy in riling up the other women into exposing their true feelings, while Suzon tries to go about getting the truth from them in a calmer, more pacifying manner.
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8 Women / int_5aa60027	type	Tell Me About My Father
8 Women / int_5aa60027	comment	Tell Me About My Father: Suzon urges Gaby to tell her about her real father, who she'd never heard of before as she had no idea she was the daughter of another man.
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8 Women / int_5b92d2f	type	Virgin-Shaming
8 Women / int_5b92d2f	comment	Later subverted by Gaby having been pregnant out of wedlock too, her revulsion likely a cover for her fear that her daughter was making the same mistakes as her. As for Augustine, she gets a dose of Virgin-Shaming in return.
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8 Women / int_5d25f366	type	You Can Leave Your Hat On
8 Women / int_5d25f366	comment	You Can Leave Your Hat On: Pierrette's dance during her musical number is a mild striptease; she doesn't take off more than her jackets and gloves, but it's still done in a very seductive manner and she throws some of her items at the other women.
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8 Women / int_5ee2f7cc	type	My Secret Pregnancy
8 Women / int_5ee2f7cc	comment	My Secret Pregnancy: Suzon wanted to keep her pregnancy secret and only told Marcel, presumably because he's the father. But the situation forces her to admit the truth to the other women.
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8 Women / int_606244c2	type	Parental Incest
8 Women / int_606244c2	comment	Parental Incest: Suzon had sexual relations with Marcel, which left her pregnant. Although it had been revealed before that he is "only" her step-father. He may have known it. She certainly did not.
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8 Women / int_60e49895	type	The Leader
8 Women / int_60e49895	comment	The Leader: As Suzon and Catherine's mother, Louise and Chanel's boss, Mamy and Augustine's gracious host and Pierrette's not-so-gracious host, Gaby serves as something of a leader for the women and she does try to keep the situation under control, but as a disappointed Louise remarks, she's not very good at asserting her authority in her own house.
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8 Women / int_616a4c	type	Give the Baby a Father
8 Women / int_616a4c	comment	Give the Baby a Father: Gaby became pregnant with Suzon out of wedlock. When the real father died, she had to marry Marcel to preserve her honor and save herself and the yet-to-be-born Suzon. Since it was the first half of the 20th century and these are upper-class characters, it was a necessity.
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8 Women / int_61814b8f	type	Jukebox Musical
8 Women / int_61814b8f	comment	Jukebox Musical: The songs consist of old French pop hits with thematically appropriate lyrics.
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8 Women / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
8 Women / int_62f9d08e	comment	Freeze-Frame Bonus: Catherine and Suzon have a disagreement after Suzon's musical number, and the camera pans to the teddy bear Suzon just dropped on Catherine's bed; next to the bear is one of Catherine's frequently-mentioned crime novels, the upside-down title of which is c'est moi l'assassin, "I am the murderer", foreshadowing the reveal that Catherine is the culprit.
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8 Women / int_65acf9db	type	He Knows Too Much
8 Women / int_65acf9db	comment	He Knows Too Much: Chanel figures out the truth behind the murder about halfway through. However she gets shocked into silence by a mysterious gunshot before she can say anything (but she doesn't die; she's just conveniently out of commission until the end).
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8 Women / int_69c32c9e	type	Subordinate Excuse
8 Women / int_69c32c9e	comment	Subordinate Excuse: Even in light of the murder, Louise wants to keep being Gaby's maid because she wants her. At least at first.
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8 Women / int_69c32c9e	featureConfidence	1.0
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8 Women / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
8 Women / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Turns out Marcel was alive all along. But he kills himself at the end out of despair at everything that's been revealed.
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8 Women / int_73328e84	type	Suicide by Cop
8 Women / int_73328e84	comment	Suicide by Cop: In the emotional fight that ensues after Mamy confesses to killing her husband in the past, she begs Augustine to kill her, and Augustine is furious enough that she might have, had Gaby not intervened.
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8 Women / int_7374ab13	type	Once More, with Clarity
8 Women / int_7374ab13	comment	Once More, with Clarity: Louise accuses Pierrette of saying that she would kill Marcel if he did not give her money. Pierrette claims that Louise misheard, and that she said she would kill herself (both phrases sounding extremely similar in French). In the end she admits that she was indeed threatening her brother.
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8 Women / int_75d6bf40	type	Belligerent Sexual Tension
8 Women / int_75d6bf40	comment	Belligerent Sexual Tension: Between Gaby and Pierrette, from the moment the latter steps into the house. It culminates in them coming to blows and then making out on the carpet.
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8 Women / int_77063cd7	type	Hooker with a Heart of Gold
8 Women / int_77063cd7	comment	Hooker with a Heart of Gold: Pierrette is one of the more pleasant characters, as shown by her investment in getting Gaby and Suzon to reconcile after the reveal of the latter's pregnancy, even though it's not Pierrette's concern.
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8 Women / int_771f6307	type	Brother–Sister Incest
8 Women / int_771f6307	comment	Brother–Sister Incest: Chanel suspects Pierrette and Marcel are a bit closer than siblings should be. Pierrette vaguely admits they may have done something when they were younger.
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8 Women / int_780e2082	type	Slimeball
8 Women / int_780e2082	comment	Slimeball: Marcel, preying on Suzon while she believed he was her father. Repulsive man.
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8 Women / int_78e8eba5	type	"I Am" Song
8 Women / int_78e8eba5	comment	"I Am" Song: "Pile ou Face" functions as this for Louise, as the song is used to describe how she lives every aspect of her life as carelessly as someone who makes decisions through a coin toss ("pile ou face" means heads or tails).
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8 Women / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
8 Women / int_792bb47a	comment	Heroic Bastard: Suzon was born out of wedlock and from a different man, yet she's the sweetest and most morally upright of the eight.
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8 Women / int_7abba202	type	The Faceless
8 Women / int_7abba202	comment	The Faceless: Marcel. The few times he appears throughout the film, it's done in such a way that his face can't be seen.
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8 Women / int_7bb1296b	type	"Rashomon"-Style
8 Women / int_7bb1296b	comment	"Rashomon"-Style: Pierrette and Louise give different accounts of the former's meeting with Marcel, with Louise claiming Pierrette threatened to kill him, while Pierrette claims she said she'd kill herself. Then later she tells Gaby she did threaten to kill him, but was bluffing. All three claims come with a different "flashback" to the meeting to illustrate the point.
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8 Women / int_7eebe99c	type	The Alcoholic
8 Women / int_7eebe99c	comment	The Alcoholic: It's often remarked that Mamy tends to drink a tad too much, which she claims helps with the pain of her disability. When that turns out to be a sham, it's implied that it's to cope with the fact that she murdered her husband.
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8 Women / int_812a2820	type	Pink Means Feminine
8 Women / int_812a2820	comment	Pink Means Feminine: The opening and ending credits use pink text. Suzon also wears pink and is markedly more feminine than her sister Catherine.
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8 Women / int_8338de89	type	"I Want" Song
8 Women / int_8338de89	comment	"I Want" Song: Pierrette's song ("A Quoi Sert de Vivre Libre") is about wanting to love and be loved (by Gaby, it's implied) and how she doesn't think it's worth leading a liberated lifestyle without it. Gaby's song ("Toi Jamais") is about how her husband took her for granted and she'd like to be showered with attention sometimes (and that's why she cheats on him).
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8 Women / int_8411ab92	type	Red Oni, Blue Oni
8 Women / int_8411ab92	comment	Red Oni, Blue Oni: Jovial, free-spirited Pierrette and chilly, bourgeois Gaby. And they respectively wear red and blue.
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8 Women / int_84df9a79	type	Second-Face Smoke
8 Women / int_84df9a79	comment	Second-Face Smoke: Pierrette defiantly blows cigarette smoke in Suzon's face when the latter is questioning her.
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8 Women / int_856a425a	type	TheFifties
8 Women / int_856a425a	comment	The '50s: The 1950's is the decade the story is set in, offering some commentary on the roles and expectations of women during this time period.
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8 Women / int_868409c	type	Broken Pedestal
8 Women / int_868409c	comment	Broken Pedestal: Louise is doggedly devoted to Gaby at first, but later expresses disappointment in Gaby's dwindling authority and lack of ability to keep things under her control.
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8 Women / int_8a1215e0	type	Bratty Teenage Daughter
8 Women / int_8a1215e0	comment	Bratty Teenage Daughter: Catherine's resentment at her status as the youngest causes her to lash out at the others for treating her like a child. One scene has her express pride at how the older women are now afraid of her for what she might say. Also, the whole "murder" was a scheme to show the women and daddy how nobody loves him as much as she does.
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8 Women / int_8ec0abf	type	The Voiceless
8 Women / int_8ec0abf	comment	The Voiceless: In addition to barely getting a look at him, Marcel also gets no lines.
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8 Women / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
8 Women / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: The story makes it clear that nobody in the house is a saint, but after the revelation that Marcel is the father of Suzon's child it's hard to have any sympathy for him.
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8 Women / int_920b5728	type	Sleeping with the Boss
8 Women / int_920b5728	comment	Sleeping with the Boss: Louise has been having a sexual relationship with Marcel for five years, which has continued under Gaby's nose after she was hired as a maid at the house. Louise later reveals she wants the same kind of relationship with Gaby and that was the reason she even took the job, and seems to take masochistic pleasure from Gaby ordering her around.
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8 Women / int_92dfffae	type	Retraux
8 Women / int_92dfffae	comment	Retraux: The look of the film evokes the look of films made in the 1950s, and the songs are all performed in a 1950s style, despite some of them being from as late as the 1980s.
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8 Women / int_9438e550	type	The Big Damn Kiss
8 Women / int_9438e550	comment	The Big Damn Kiss: Gaby and Pierrette's kiss is accompanied by swelling romantic music and lasts for quite a while.
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8 Women / int_958f1f57	type	Maiden Aunt
8 Women / int_958f1f57	comment	Maiden Aunt: Augustine is a spinster and certainly puts on airs of being conservative and prudish (though she actually loves romance novels), being judgemental towards her nieces.
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8 Women / int_96d2ce42	type	In Vino Veritas
8 Women / int_96d2ce42	comment	In Vino Veritas: Mamy's alcoholism eventually leads to her spilling her most closely guarded secret - that she killed her husband.
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8 Women / int_99e14f05	type	All-Loving Hero
8 Women / int_99e14f05	comment	All-Loving Hero: Suzon. Exemplified in an early scene where Augustine makes snide suggestions that she might be forging her good grades, to which Suzon reacts with patience and understanding. She's also not disgusted by Chanel's lesbianism, unlike Gaby and Mamy. Not bad for a kid of the 1950's.
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8 Women / int_9ccb5f39	type	Summation Gathering
8 Women / int_9ccb5f39	comment	Summation Gathering: At the end all the women are gathered to hear Catherine explain the truth of the supposed crime to them.
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8 Women / int_9e1548b4	type	Old Retainer
8 Women / int_9e1548b4	comment	Old Retainer: Chanel has been working at the household long enough that the family, especially Suzon who she had a hand in raising, see her as part of it.
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8 Women / int_a09f3a65	type	Sibling Triangle
8 Women / int_a09f3a65	comment	Sibling Triangle: A double example. Gaby and Marcel are married, while Marcel's sister Pierrette is interested in Gaby, and Gaby's sister Augustine is interested in Marcel.
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8 Women / int_a10a7f9b	type	Smug Smiler
8 Women / int_a10a7f9b	comment	Smug Smiler: Pierrette's default expression, showing how she's completely confident in herself and shrugs off everyone's opinions about her "immoral" lifestyle. She even keeps it on while the big twist is being revealed and the other women look astounded, though it does fall off sometimes, like when Gaby tells her particularly nasty things or when she overhears Gaby telling Suzon about her real father.
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8 Women / int_a36fb848	type	Grand Staircase Entrance
8 Women / int_a36fb848	comment	Grand Staircase Entrance: Augustine makes her post-makeover entrance by glamorously coming down the stairs.
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8 Women / int_a3a7c41	type	Black Sheep
8 Women / int_a3a7c41	comment	Black Sheep: Pierrette's libertine lifestyle caused Gaby to ban her from the house to protect the family's reputation. Pierrette can't forgive Marcel for going along with this (although he allowed secret visits), but she seems quite ready to forgive Gaby (though not without subjecting her to a good deal of snark).
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8 Women / int_a551c7ee	type	Homosocial Heterosexuality
8 Women / int_a551c7ee	comment	Homosocial Heterosexuality: Louise has an affair with Marcel, Gaby's husband. They fight over him for the sake of it, but without much heart. Gaby is the one Louise actually wants.
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8 Women / int_aa07ca54	type	Obfuscating Disability
8 Women / int_aa07ca54	comment	Obfuscating Disability: Gaby is surprised that Mamy is not actually confined to her wheelchair. She was faking it so Gaby would take pity on her and let her live with her.
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8 Women / int_abbea4f7	type	Dumb Struck
8 Women / int_abbea4f7	comment	Dumb Struck: Chanel is rendered mute for a while out of shock at hearing a gunshot. The culprit did this because she had caught on to what was going on too early and so needed to be silenced.
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8 Women / int_abc60c5d	type	Harmful to Minors
8 Women / int_abc60c5d	comment	Harmful to Minors: Catherine, who's only 16, is the only one to witness her father blow his own brains out with her own eyes. A real dick move on his part, too, since he waited for her to be right in front of him before doing it. Catherine is obviously despondent and needs to be comforted by Mamy.
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8 Women / int_b1a7cd14	type	Tap on the Head
8 Women / int_b1a7cd14	comment	Tap on the Head: Gaby knocks out Mamy by smashing a bottle on her head to stop her and Augustine's fight. Mamy gets wheeled into the cupboard to sleep and wakes up totally fine near the end.
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8 Women / int_b9f8c6f8	type	Sleeping Single
8 Women / int_b9f8c6f8	comment	Sleeping Single: Gaby and Marcel sleep in separate rooms despite being married, as Augustine snidely remarks. Gaby excuses it as Marcel having asked her because he's swamped in work and comes home late.
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8 Women / int_ba46585b	type	Adaptational Backstory Change
8 Women / int_ba46585b	comment	Adaptational Backstory Change: Gaby's lost love and his being Suzon's real father are plot points that didn't exist in Thomas' play. Likewise Mamy killing her husband and how it traumatized Augustine.
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8 Women / int_bb0150c8	type	CoolAunt
8 Women / int_bb0150c8	comment	Cool Aunt: Pierrette defends Suzon when she reveals she's pregnant and her own mother calls her a whore for it. She contrasts Augustine, who's annoyingly critical of her nieces.
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8 Women / int_bb0c0a4d	type	Fiery Redhead
8 Women / int_bb0c0a4d	comment	Fiery Redhead: Augustine has auburn hair and an extremely short fuse.
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8 Women / int_bb660963	type	Color-Coded Characters
8 Women / int_bb660963	comment	Color-Coded Characters: Usually related to their flowers. Pink for Suzon, green for Catherine, violet for Mamy, leopard patterns and dark blue-green for Gaby, brown for Augustine, red for Pierrette, black and white for Louise, and yellow for Chanel.
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8 Women / int_bc5ddda5	type	Thematic Series
8 Women / int_bc5ddda5	comment	Thematic Series: This film, Potiche (2010) and The Crime Is Mine (2023) form a trilogy of adapted theatre plays about the condition of women.
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8 Women / int_bd5a03ea	type	Orgasmic Combat
8 Women / int_bd5a03ea	comment	Orgasmic Combat
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8 Women / int_bf00b603	type	No Romantic Resolution
8 Women / int_bf00b603	comment	No Romantic Resolution: Any resolution to the Louise/Gaby/Pierrette/Chanel love quadrangle is left up in the air after the ending. How Gaby and Pierrette intend to deal with their lover Jacques Farnoux is also a mystery.
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8 Women / int_c4976d7c	type	Vehicular Sabotage
8 Women / int_c4976d7c	comment	Vehicular Sabotage: The culprit ruins the car's engine so none of the characters can leave. Louise none-too-subtly suggests Gaby did it, which makes sense because as far as anyone knows she was the last one who was anywhere near the car before the sabotage was discovered.
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8 Women / int_c972d624	type	Slut-Shaming
8 Women / int_c972d624	comment	Slut-Shaming: On Pierette, extensively, for her lifestyle and especially her job as a light-skirted dancer in Paris. On Suzon, by her mother and her aunt, when it turns out that she is pregnant. Later subverted by Gaby having been pregnant out of wedlock too, her revulsion likely a cover for her fear that her daughter was making the same mistakes as her. As for Augustine, she gets a dose of Virgin-Shaming in return.
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8 Women / int_ca855eaf	type	Love Letter Lunacy
8 Women / int_ca855eaf	comment	Love Letter Lunacy: Augustine wrote a love letter to Marcel, which she misplaced in a book that she returned to the library, which gets discovered by Pierrette, who reads the letter out loud for the benefit of the other women, exposing Augustine's interest in her sister's husband.
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8 Women / int_ccfc0535	type	Letting Her Hair Down
8 Women / int_ccfc0535	comment	Letting Her Hair Down: Part of Augustine's makeover, which makes her more relaxed as a person, is to let her hair down instead of having it all pinned up like it was for most of the film.
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8 Women / int_ce515b47	type	Musical World Hypotheses
8 Women / int_ce515b47	comment	Musical World Hypotheses: Alternate Universe, due to Augustine complaining about the racket after the first number finishes.
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8 Women / int_d143edf2	type	Everybody Did It
8 Women / int_d143edf2	comment	Everybody Did It: From a certain point of view, the end of the movie becomes this, in the sense that each woman of the cast made Marcel more and more depressed, culminating in his suicide when his younger daughter becomes just as despicable as the rest of them. That's however, if you view his beliefs as accurate...
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8 Women / int_d1b5778b	type	Big Secret
8 Women / int_d1b5778b	comment	Big Secret: Every one of the eight has at least one secret she really would rather not get out, which only makes her more suspicious the longer she keeps it. All the secrets end up coming out since they'd also rather not be convicted of murder, exposing a slew of scandals, infidelities and secret loves. Catherine is the only one without a big secret, except for the fact that she is the one behind the whole mystery.
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8 Women / int_d1cedb73	type	Slap-Slap-Kiss
8 Women / int_d1cedb73	comment	Slap-Slap-Kiss: Gaby and Pierrette, who spend the film snarking at each other until they have a serious argument where they come to physical blows, only to end in them kissing.
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8 Women / int_d32cd9f5	type	Cast Full of Gay
8 Women / int_d32cd9f5	comment	Cast Full of Gay: Downplayed; Gaby, Pierrette, Louise and Chanel, who are half the cast, turn out to be some form of LGBT.
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8 Women / int_d34cbda2	type	Implausible Deniability
8 Women / int_d34cbda2	comment	Implausible Deniability: When Suzon, Catherine, Augustine and Louise catch Gaby and Pierrette making out on the floor, Gaby tries to claim they were "only talking." Since there are more pressing things to worry about, the matter is quickly dropped.
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