Alessandro Genovesi’s remake of Ozon with Deneuve and Huppert arrives in cinemas on Christmas day: suspicions, rivalries and secrets in the Hitchcock-like plot
Eve with the dead. Christmas lunch served, but there is nothing to celebrate. A disunited female family where each suspects the other of the murder of the only man in this story. He was a Don Giovanni, that was the only sure thing.7 women and a mystery
by Alessandro Genovesi (released on December 25 by Warner Bros. which also produces it, with Wildside) the Italian version of 8 women and a mystery by the Frenchman Franois Ozon (from the pice of Robert Thomas). Who gains from the death of man (from the conspicuous patrimony)? Jealousies and spite, women scuffle, accuse each other, spill everything on themselves. Margherita Buy, the unbearable wife, takes the place of Catherine Deneuve; the rebellious daughter Benedetta Porcaroli (Ludivine Sagnier), the devoted eldest daughter Diana Del Bufalo (Virginie Ledoyen), the sour aunt Sabrina Impacciatore (Isabelle Huppert), the drunken and skimpy mother-in-law Ornella Vanoni (Danielle Darrieux), the very intimate maid of the dead Luisa Ranieri (Emmanuelle Bart), his lover Micaela Ramazzotti (Fanny Ardant).
Margherita, what was it like kissing the rival woman on the mouth? I always try to never kiss in a movie, be it a man or a woman. For …. A united, joyful and accomplice group of actresses (a forced version would be nice, says Micaela), they also have a chat with each other but now they have to contend with an arrembante Sabrina who doesn’t let go of the microphone. Margherita laughs: We tell each other erotic things. And Benedetta: Above all vulgar. After a quick survey, Deneuve (who managed to transform her icy beauty into a funny and comical character, who makes fun of herself) and Huppert (a magnet) win for them among the famous French colleagues. The eighth woman, the nanny Firmine Richard, was given up. Other differences, we are in the ’30s and not in the’ 50s (we put more Hitchcock and Agatha Christie atmospheres), and there is no dancing or singing. But how, Sabrina, a set without men? Liberating, Me too gives us more importance and roles. When it comes to breeding the species, we are less competitive than humans.
Margherita: Seven men would not have been able to finish filming. I am one who usually goes to his own good fortune, at first I was scared, this film did me good. a witty and good-humored Buy: I wanted to say something very intelligent but gone away, I missed it. She gives a bottle on the head of Vanoni, white wig and in a wheelchair: It was all fake but she got scared, she didn’t react very well, if I had killed her it would have been a good advertisement for me.
Vanoni in the hilarious film: How do you want me to be? I look and wait. it was an honor, an anthropological experience, says Benedetta. The acidity goes to go-go in the waltz of the horns. Buy a Ranieri: You are such an ordinary woman. You can see that he was tired of an exceptional woman, the answer. Benedetta Porcaroli summarizes: They are the kid and they are the witches. Let’s hope it’s female. Genovesi, the director, the only surviving male example: how to work with seven women? Well, there are easier things in life.
December 15, 2021 (change December 16, 2021 | 10:19)
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