Ozon is manipulative himself here by casting Hanna Schygulla as the mother of Ménochet’s Peter, who looks and dresses increasingly like Fassbinder himself as the film goes on.

Even with that origin story in mind, Ozon’s creative penchant for sex and death tends to be overstated. Yes, the 57-year-old’s most internationally successful movies – the candy-coloured ...

CANNES, France -- The French director Francois Ozon is both a mischievous enfant terrible and a capable and cool-headed strategist who knows how to get what he wants. Though he has always flirted ...

François Ozon: ‘I was a very perverse child – I loved the idea of my aunt trying to kill us all’ The reformed ‘enfant terrible’ of French cinema – and director of ‘Swimming Pool ...

With "Frantz," Francois Ozon directed a remake of Ernst Lubitsch's 1932 film "Broken Lullaby" without realizing it.

SAN SEBASTIAN — In bumper deals, premier French production-sales agency Playtime has secured a raft of sales across key territories for François Ozon's "When Fall Is Coming," which bows in San ...

TORONTO – In Francois Ozon‘s Swimming Pool, a parched crime writer’s creativity is reinvigorated by her proximity to a sexually uninhibited younger woman.A less carnal male twist on that ...

Music Box Films has dropped the trailer for “The Crime Is Mine,” François Ozon’s screwball comedy set in 1930s Paris starring Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Rebecca Marder and Isabelle Huppert. A ...

Ozon manages to instill a measured touch into every argument, outburst, and testimony, matching the naturalistic cinematography (by Manuel Dacosse, “Let the Corpses Tan”) and bestowing on us ...

But Ozon’s observant, sensitive adaptation of Emmanuèle Bernheim’s same-titled memoir about assisting her dad’s dying is the furthest thing from a topic-driven morality play (as the ...

Ozon first discovered the story of a French soldier carrying the trauma of World War I home in a play by Maurice Rostand. After he’d made Frantz, a loose adaptation of Rostand’s play, Ozon discovered ...

French director François Ozon is no stranger to films brimming with romance and sexuality and now he offers us a brand new one combined once more with a coming-of-age journey.. Based on the 1982 ...