Many people compare director François Ozon with Hitchcock & Chabrol, and this "Eight Beautiful Picture" is completely his style: it is mainly based on exploration of desire and deviance, combined with some deviant elements , dark, humorous, with a taste of psychoanalysis... There is an unexpected ending at the end.
The occurrence, reasoning and solving of a murder case are all unfolded in 111 minutes in a suburban villa, and there is no chance for people to blink. Except for the beauty of the eight women and the wonderful music of the stage play, it shows that the director's Narrative control.
The wealthy and huge family is busy preparing for Christmas. The girl who is going to school goes home early for the holiday. The only man in the film (the male protagonist) has not woken up yet. With a knife, the door was never opened, and the murderer must be one of the eight women in the room. The phone line was cut, the snow blocked the mountain, and the car couldn't start, so everyone started reasoning to try to find the murderer.
In order to clear their criminal suspicion, they began to expose each other.
Starting from the uneven distribution of inheritance, along the way, the contradiction between the master and the servant was discovered, the daughter who was studying abroad was pregnant before marriage, the master had an extramarital affair with the maid, the sister of the master had a homosexual relationship with the black servant, the grandmother once poisoned the grandfather, The daughter is the illegitimate daughter of her mother's extramarital affairs, the father and daughter are incest and other secrets.
Everyone's selfishness, greed, and desires are exposed:
the maid ostensibly serves the family, but actually colludes with the black maid to conspire against the master and try to be the mistress. The actor Emmanuel Bea is of mixed blood from four countries. He was nearly forty years old when he made this film, but he still looks like a charming and dangerous Pandora. At the European Film Awards in December 2002, she won the title of Best Actress with "Eight Beauties" and other seven heroines.
The male host's sister-in-law, living in poverty and relying on others, has always liked the male host Maso and secretly wrote a lot of love letters, but did not help him solve the crisis when he encountered difficulties.
In the film, the actor who plays the male protagonist Marceau's sister has a great look and expression. He is bisexual by nature, and often borrows money from his brother for the sake of his male lover. He broke the villa's black maid and hostess Guy Bi, later found out that the money she "supported" her lover fell into Gai Bi's hands.
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the end of the movie, the male protagonist who suspended his death in the room heard the accusations and betrayals of the eight women, and was disheartened and committed suicide.
Who is the murderer? Check it out for yourself in the movie!
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