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7 Women and a Murder

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7 Women and a Murder
Theatrical release poster
Italian7 donne e un mistero
Directed byAlessandro Genovesi
Screenplay by
  • Alessandro Genovesi
  • Lisa Nur Sultan
Based on8 Women
by François Ozon
Produced by
  • Mario Gianani
  • Lorenzo Gangarossa
Starring
CinematographyFederico Masiero
Edited byClaudio Di Mauro
Music byAndrea Farri
Production
companies
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures
Release date
  • 25 December 2021 (2021-12-25) (Italy)
Running time
83 minutes
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian
Box office€1.1 million (Italy)

7 Women and a Murder (Italian: 7 donne e un mistero, lit. '7 Women and a Mystery') is a 2021 Italian comedy mystery film co-written and directed by Alessandro Genovesi, serving as a remake of the 2002 film 8 Women by François Ozon, itself based on the play Huit femmes by Robert Thomas.[1][2] It stars Margherita Buy, Diana Del Bufalo, Sabrina Impacciatore, Benedetta Porcaroli, Micaela Ramazzotti, Luisa Ranieri and Ornella Vanoni.

The film was released in Italy on 25 December 2021 by Warner Bros. Pictures,[1] grossing €1,118,038.[3] It was made available on Netflix internationally on 28 December 2022.[4]

Cast

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Plot Summary

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Near the Christmas holidays, a daughter arrives home from Milan, having caught an earlier train than the previously planned train at noon. Also living in the house are a maid, the mother of the family, the younger daughter, the grandmother, and the mother's sister. The maid is sent to see if the father wants breakfast and finds him stabbed in the back. Realizing it must have happened overnight, the women try to find out who killed him. They find that the phone lines are cut, and the car engine was tampered with, so they must solve the mystery on their own.

Over the course of the investigation, many secrets are revealed, and the seventh woman, a neighbor and previous lover of the father, shows up after receiving a mysterious phone call informing her the father has died. Once she confirms it is true, she turns to leave but finds that the blizzard is too severe to walk back home and she must stay in the house.

The grandmother reveals that the older daughter, who returned home early to tell her father she was pregnant, is from another father. To prevent her from sharing more details, the mother hits her over the head, which knocks her unconscious. They hide her in the storeroom.

Eventually, they try to scale the gate, but shouting from inside the house draws the group back in, and they find the mother and the father's ex-lover kissing after getting into a violent fight, with blood on their faces.

When returning from the gate, the maid figures out what happened, but says that she is not the one who should tell the store. Then, the younger daughter reveals that it was all a plot between her and the father to determine, after his death, who would cry from love and whose only concern would be money. They all rush to his bedroom see him but find that what he overheard in the chaos after his faked death drove him to jump off of the terrace in his room. Finding that he is truly dead, they call the police inspector and report that he committed suicide due to financial trouble.

The women all decided to stick together and take care of each other in the big house with the man's inheritance.

References

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  1. ^ a b Amitrano, Vania (15 December 2021). "7 donne e un mistero: il giallo Natale tutto al femminile" [7 Women and a Murder: the all-female Christmas giallo]. Ciak (in Italian). Retrieved 28 December 2022.
  2. ^ Piazza, Bianca (29 December 2022). "Is '7 Women and a Murder' a Remake? The Italian Whodunit Boasts Similarities to Another Film". Distractify. Retrieved 29 December 2022.
  3. ^ "Classifica Box Office ITALIA 2021/2022". MYmovies.it (in Italian). Retrieved 29 December 2022.
  4. ^ Kocan, Liz (28 December 2022). "Stream It Or Skip It: '7 Women And A Murder' On Netflix, An Italian Whodunnit Featuring 'White Lotus' Star Sabrina Impacciatore". Decider. Retrieved 29 December 2022.
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