Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

RyothChatty ridiculous rating

Limerculer A waste of 90 minutes of my life

ChanFamous I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

JasparLamarCrabb Vittorio De Sica's seven tiered black comedy stars Shirley MacLaine alongside an international group of leading men. She's a widow wooed by Peter Sellers (during the funeral procession), the mousy, dejected wife of Rosanno Brazzi, an interpreter playing sex games with Vittorio Gassman & Clinton Grey, the unfulfilled wife of nitwit romance novelist Lex Barker, the shrike wife of wealthy Patrick Wymark, a cheating wife in a suicide pact with Alan Arkin, and finally a bored Parisian housewife pursued by Michael Caine. None of this is particularly memorable and only some of it's even funny, but MacLaine looks terrific and the actors are all fine (though Sellers vanishes too quickly & Caine has no on-screen dialog). There's some great Paris locations photographed by Christian Matras and Anita Ekberg and Elsa Martinelli appear in cameos.

moonspinner55 With Shirley MacLaine in a variety of different wigs and costumes (and a large variety of co-stars in the cast including Alan Arkin, Rossano Brazzi, Shirley's "Gambit" co-star Michael Caine, Anita Ekberg, Vittorio Gassman and a pre-"Being There" Peter Sellers), I was terrified this was going to be a replay of MacLaine's all-star marital farce "What a Way to Go!" Not quite, as Shirley is playing seven different women this time, in seven short stories about love and sex. The opening tale involving Shirl in a funeral procession is very witty, but the other six seem to progressively lose steam. Not the tour-de-force MacLaine's fans were probably hoping for, it does have some cute bits and pieces but suffers from a muddy production and tepid handling overall. *1/2 from ****

David Acres With all the stars on call and what seems like a decent budget the seven short films often seem to be struggling to find a point and fall flat. The only exception is Michael Cane's outing. This is a little gem, a perfect musical score and well shot. The story has a little twist and is what I imagine all the other six films aspired to.SPOILERShirley is, in my humble view, looking absolutely stunning, as the faithful wife/sex kitten who never quite strayed from the path, but the first time she is tempted is, ironically enough.. by the private eye following her on the orders of her jealous husband.Excellent little short, makes the film worth watching.

jtclark01 Woman Times Seven may not be the greatest film IL' Shirl has ever made ("Being There" comes to mind), and it may not be her high water mark for sheer feminine beauty (the scene where she's on the elevating psychiatrist's couch in "What A Way To Go" certainly takes that prize), but just to look at her as the grieving widow, to the surprise revelation of that cute little bow at the back of her apron in such a strategic place, to how she CLEARLY was the most spectacular femme at the opera...ah, what a piece of work is woman!In this day and age, where women think that they don't need makeup, or stockings, or stiletto pumps, where hair is considered attractive if it looks like one just got out of bed and used fingers alone, and before they wake up and realize that tattoos and piercings are sooo trampy, that quick-cut set of takes where she is at once the house mouse in her little peignoir and just as instantly the SAME WOMAN is the man-eating vixen Simone is CLEAR CUT PROOF that with the right grooming and wardrobe ANY woman can be a goddess. I've been saying THAT for years, but no one but the cinematic cognoscenti would even know what I'm talking about.Beyond that, the flick has EXACTLY the right taste of Sixties-flick, and that's enough said. Remember: Heaven will be all-Sixties forever.JTC