7 donne e un mistero

Directed by Director's notes
  • Alessandro Genovesi
Directed by
  • Alessandro Genovesi
Year
  • 2021
Length
  • 82 min.
Year
  • 2021
Length
  • 82 min.
Cast
  • Margherita Buy
  • Diana Del Bufalo
  • Sabrina Impacciatore
  • Benedetta Porcaroli
  • Micaela Ramazzotti
  • Luisa Ranieri
  • Ornella Vanoni
Synopsis

Set in 1930s Italy, 7 Donne e un Mistero tells the gripping story of the frantic hours following the inexplicable murder of an entrepreneur—also a husband and father—at the center of a colorful group of women. After gathering at the family villa to celebrate Christmas Eve together, they find themselves forced to confront one another and reveal secrets and deceptions in an attempt to solve a mystery that somehow involves them all. In fact, they are all suspects—so who is the murderer?

Director's notes
  • I tried to be kind and brave. I certainly had a lot of fun. I worked very hard. I put my ego aside, serving 7 truly crazy women. Very amusing, I must say, but crazy. Mind you, their madness is always justified by having the courage to do what they do. Specifically, to portray women who will then be giants on a screen and, I hope, seen by many people. Lisa Nur, who co-wrote the film with me, and I are no better off when it comes to madness. We were all there trying to make a story credible, which, by the way, is a mystery. There was a dead person to make real and a murderer to find. I strongly wanted to be catapulted into another era with them. It was fundamental. Makeup, hair, costumes, and set design were top-notch. We had to be in another world, and no one should resemble the self they knew well. Even the camera and photography had to be from another era, but all simultaneously modern. It wasn't easy, but there was snow. And snow always helps. There was also a film made before by someone else. A good film, by the way. In France, it's even a cult classic. But we didn't dwell on it much. We tried to tell the story in our own way. Leveraging what we do best: the girls acting, and me trying to make what was happening credible. And then there's the music, which is always important, but in a film like this, it's incredibly so. It wasn't supposed to be a musical, because that was Ozon's idea. A good idea, but it was his. What emerged is a chamber mystery, set on a Christmas night in the 1930s, which is a delight for the eyes and ears, where the 7 crazy women act divinely. And they also make you laugh. Which in a comedy never hurts.
Directed by
  • ALESSANDRO GENOVESI
Screenplay
  • ALESSANDRO GENOVESI
  • LISA NUR SULTAN
Based on
  • il film di François Ozon 8 FEMMES
Produced by
  • MARIO GIANANI
  • LORENZO GANGAROSSA
  • PER WILDSIDE, SOCIETÀ DEL GRUPPO FREMANTLE
Produced by
  • WARNER BROS. ENTERTAINMENT ITALIA
Executive producer
  • OLIVIA SLEITER
Editing
  • CLAUDIO DI MAURO
Scenography
  • MASSIMILIANO STURIALE
Director of photography
  • FEDERICO MASIERO
Costumes
  • FRANCESCA SARTORI
Sound engineer
  • VINCENZO URSELLI
Assistant Director
  • FEDERICA CICIARELLI
Makeup
  • FEDERICA EMIDI
Hairdresser
  • ALBERTA GIULIANI
Casting
  • VALERIA MIRANDA
General organizer
  • LEANDRO FABBRI
Publishing Secretary
  • LAURA BIAGIOTTI
Director's notes
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I tried to be kind and brave. I certainly had a lot of fun. I worked very hard. I put my ego aside, serving 7 truly crazy women. Very amusing, I must say, but crazy. Mind you, their madness is always justified by having the courage to do what they do. Specifically, to portray women who will then be giants on a screen and, I hope, seen by many people. Lisa Nur, who co-wrote the film with me, and I are no better off when it comes to madness. We were all there trying to make a story credible, which, by the way, is a mystery. There was a dead person to make real and a murderer to find. I strongly wanted to be catapulted into another era with them. It was fundamental. Makeup, hair, costumes, and set design were top-notch. We had to be in another world, and no one should resemble the self they knew well. Even the camera and photography had to be from another era, but all simultaneously modern. It wasn't easy, but there was snow. And snow always helps. There was also a film made before by someone else. A good film, by the way. In France, it's even a cult classic. But we didn't dwell on it much. We tried to tell the story in our own way. Leveraging what we do best: the girls acting, and me trying to make what was happening credible. And then there's the music, which is always important, but in a film like this, it's incredibly so. It wasn't supposed to be a musical, because that was Ozon's idea. A good idea, but it was his. What emerged is a chamber mystery, set on a Christmas night in the 1930s, which is a delight for the eyes and ears, where the 7 crazy women act divinely. And they also make you laugh. Which in a comedy never hurts.