Peter Greenaway pays tribute to Fellini and Godard in a tasty movie that could only be his own. John Standing and Matthew Delamere bravely get their kit off as a father and grownup son who console each other in a sumptuous Geneva chateau after the death of the mother. Their weird therapy includes comparing bodies, a visit to Fellini's 81/2 and the assembly of a kind of harum of 81/2 women of their own - including a sexy nun (Toni Collette), a tart with a heart (Polly Walker) and a feisty horse rider (Amanda Plummer). Greenaway's script is clever and provocative, the film looks and sounds gorgeous, and beguiles the brain. But cinema is emotion - and Greenaway takes you on a giddy rollercoaster ride of anguish, pain, lust, disgust and joy. He's a unique artist in British cinema - and his admirers will be in eight and a halfth heaven.