Reviews

Just as Gad Elmaleh's sense of humor, this comedy is light and poetic. Dealing with serious subjects such as homo and transsexuality, immigration, integration, without ever falling into the usual clichés, always thinking positive. Plus hearing Gad faking a moroccan accent is so nice, like he often does in his one man shows. Reminds me of my moroccan friends... It creates many occasions for smart and funny puns with the french language. That's so his style.

Alain Chabat is excellent as usual, what a Prince Charming he makes, lol ! Liked Catherine Frot and Claude Brasseur too. I don't know why I expected them to become mean with Chouchou any minute, but they were adorable too. Roschdy Zem in an unusual role, he was great too.

This is not the best comedy ever, but I really liked the light tone and originality. Cute.

I'm a woman and I'm french, and still, 8 femmes is on my top 50 of the most ridiculous films I ever saw. The story is cheap Agatha Christie, without the suspense. And the singing, totally out of place here, the first song I heard, I was like 'is this a joke, do I have to laugh or is it serious ?'. But then they went on and on, singing every 10 minutes, and I was kinda desperate. It ruined the little interest I had grown for the story so far...

The only thing I liked were the actresses (when they were not singing of course), Ludivine Sagnier is so refreshing, Fanny Ardant so mysterious and classy, I liked Firmine Richard and Virginie Ledoyen too. Emmanuelle Béart, bitchy as usual, but still moving...

The big mystery to me is that 8 femmes actually had success in theaters, a warm welcome by critics (which is never a good sign), and even had 12 Cesar nominations (but won none, thank god) !

I might not represent a majority of french viewers but I really had to say how much I disagree with people who think this movie is great...