The Nice Guys
2016USA★ 7.14 pt match
What ties these together is guilt. The world both films live in revolves around men and women navigating expectations and class and money. Both move the same way too, dark comedy, escalating, and episodic.
8 Women
8 femmes
2002FranceLanguage: frDirected by François Ozon★ 6.9
Available in English: subtitled
Eight women gather to celebrate Christmas in a snowbound cottage, only to find the family patriarch dead with a knife in his back. Trapped in the house, every woman becomes a suspect, each having her own motive and secret.
Themes and style
Tone
dark comedywhimsicalsurrealmelancholic
Pacing
episodicescalating
Story
investigationunravelingcon deception
Emotion
guiltall-consuming lovefiguring out who you areshamelonging
Themes
class and moneyfamily wounds passed downmen and women navigating expectationsfamily duty
Feel
fun scarycrowd pleaserrewatchablediscussion starter
Violence
suggestiveWhere to watch
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