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Tag Archives: François Ozon
Water Drops on Burning Rocks AKA Gouttes d’eau sur pierres brûlantes (2000) François Ozon, Bernard Giraudeau, Malik Zidi, Ludivine Sagnier
Germany in the 1970s. Whilst waiting for his girlfriend, a young student, Franz Read More »
Under the Sand AKA Sous le sable (2000) François Ozon, Charlotte Rampling, Bruno Cremer, Jacques Nolot
Marie, a professor of English literature in a Paris university, has been happily married Read More »
By the Grace of God AKA Grâce à Dieu (2018) François Ozon, Melvil Poupaud, Denis Ménochet, Swann Arlaud
Francois Ozon’s gripping drama follows three men who band together to dismantle the code Read More »
Frantz (2016) François Ozon, Pierre Niney, Paula Beer, Ernst Stötzner
In 1919 Quedlinburg, Germany, a young woman named Anna is still mourning the death of her fiance Read More »
Ricky (2009) François Ozon, Alexandra Lamy, Sergi López, Mélusine Mayance
Katie, a single mother living in France with her daughter Lisa, struggles to make ends meet while working at a chemical factory. Read More »
Le temps qui reste / Time to Leave (2005) François Ozon, Melvil Poupaud, Jeanne Moreau, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Drama
In Paris, thirty-one-year-old gay fashion photographer Romain learns he has a terminal cancer. As chances with chemotherapy are only slim, he chooses to live the rest of his life without treatment or mollycoddling, hiding the truth from his lover Sasha and his family, being cruel to kindly push them away.
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Angel (2007) François Ozon, Romola Garai, Sam Neill, Lucy Russell, Drama, Romance
Angel Deverell comes of age in Edwardian Cheshire knowing she will be a great writer. Rising above her class (her widowed mother has a grocery shop), Angel finds a publisher and a wide audience for her frothy romances. With royalties, she buys an estate, then she’s smitten by Esme, a rake from local aristocracy and an artist of dark temperament. She hires Esme’s sister Nora, who dotes on her, as a personal assistant, and pursues Esme. Angel is grandly self-centered, coloring her world as if it were one of her novels. When the Great War breaks out and reality begins to trump her will, can Angel hold on to her man and her public?
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Le refuge / The Refuge (2009) François Ozon, Isabelle Carré, Louis-Ronan Choisy, Pierre Louis-Calixte, Drama
Mousse and Louis are young, beautiful, rich and in love. But drugs have invaded their lives. One day, they overdose and Louis dies. Mousse survives, but soon learns she’s pregnant. Feeling lost, Mousse runs away to a house far from Paris. Several months later, Louis’ brother joins her in her refuge.
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