Romy Schneider plays a hat shop employee who becomes a banker (a lady one), partially through the help of her girlfriend Camille. Is it a coincidence that her downfall begins once she focuses her romantic attention on a dude instead of Camille and the other women she’s interested in throughout the movie? I don’t think so. She also wears a white tuxedo at one point that is just A+++.
8 Women is a movie where 8 women kind of seem like they want to bone each other. Firmine Richard admits she has the hots for Fanny Ardant. Fanny Ardant indulges her in some lady loving before having a fight with Catherine Deneuve that turns into a makeout session. Emmanuelle Beart shares some brief tension with Isabelle Huppert before shifting her subtext focus to Catherine Deneuve. She also carries around a photo of her old boss, which is actually just a photo of Romy Schneider’s bisexual character from The Lady Banker. Ludivine Sagnier has a suspicious haircut. And Danielle Darrieux and Virgine Ledoyen… well, they don’t really do anything very gay, but 6 out of 8’s not bad.
“The most important man in my life is and always will be Alain Delon. He is always there when I need a shoulder to cry on… even today Alain is the only man I can count on. He would always help me. Only Alain shaped me as a woman. Even though he hurt me a lot when he left me I also matured because of it.”
