8 ½ Women

“If every man thinks of sex once every nine minutes, what does he think of the other eight?”

Why would a widowed Geneva businessman fill his villa with eight-and-a-half concubines? Philip Emmenthal (John Standing) does it after his wife dies, at the urging of his playboy son Storey (Matthew Delamere). Peter Greenaway gathers a nun, a gambler, a Kabuki student and a horsewoman with a pet pig, and over one year they begin to claim power in a house built to keep them.