FILM · 2002 · FRANCE
8 femmes
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- #001
When Louise shows a photograph of her former employer, it is a picture of Romy Schneider.
- #002
Director François Ozon wanted to remake George Cukor's The Women (1939) but changed his mind and later found the play written by Robert Thomas.
- #003
This marked the third time Danielle Darrieux played Catherine Deneuve's mother, after The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967) and Le lieu du crime (1986).
- #004
Pierrette (Fanny Ardant) tells Augustine (Isabelle Huppert) that she resembles a woman from one of her romance novels, "La Dame Aux Camélias." Huppert had in fact played Alphonsine in La storia vera della signora dalle camelie (1980), an adaptation of that novel.
- #005
Although the film is set in the 1950s, the featured songs were released later, all of them between 1963 and 1987. "Papa t'es plus dans l'coup" is especially anachronistic and is clearly part of the early-60s yé-yé style.
- #006
In the German dub, the French actresses were voiced by 8 popular German actresses: Senta Berger (Gaby), Hannelore Elsner (Pierrette), Cosma Shiva Hagen (Catherine), Nina Hoss (Louise), Nicolette Krebitz (Suzon), Ruth-Maria Kubitschek (Mamy), Katja Riemann (Augustine), Jasmin Tabatabai (Mme Chanel).
- #007
Emmanuelle Béart was originally planned to play Pierrette.
- #008
Of the eight musical numbers, all eight women are present for only two: Pierrette's and Mamy's. By contrast, the musical number with the fewest characters is Chanel's, as she is entirely alone throughout it.
- #009
The eight songs performed in the film were sung by the actresses themselves and recorded at Guillaume Tell Studio in Paris. All of the songs had been released in France by other artists years before the film was made.
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