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A Balasaur Score of 49 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 5.6/10, Rotten Tomatoes 41%, Metacritic 36/100. Audiences rate it 20 points higher than critics do. Most of the 2,032 1990s drama movies in this catalog score higher. Streaming on Tubi.
Synopsis
After his wife dies, middle-aged businessman Philip Emmenthal, at the prompting of his playboy son Storey, populates his Geneva villa with eight-and-a-half concubines. Three are from Kyoto, where Storey manages Pachinco palaces. Each has a distinctive personality: a nun, a child bearer, a gambler, a student of Kabuki, a horsewoman with a pet pig, a maid. As a year passes, the women begin asserting their own power.
Ratings
IMDb5.6/10
Rotten Tomatoes41%
Metacritic36/100
Audiences rate it 20 points higher than critics do.
70 audience votes
Key crew
- Peter GreenawayDirector
- Frank LoesserOriginal Music Composer
- Peter GreenawayScreenplay
Cast
- John StandingPhilip Emmenthal
- Matthew DelamereStorey Emmenthal
- Vivian WuKito
- Annie Shizuka InohSimato
- Toni ColletteGriselda
- Claire JohnstonAmelia, Philip's Wife
- Polly WalkerPalmira
- Amanda PlummerBeryl
- Elizabeth BerringtonCeleste
- Don WarringtonSimon
- Kirina ManoMio
- Manna FujiwaraGiulietta/Half Woman
Stills
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Themes
loss of loved oneharemillegal prostitutionfather son relationship