Ozon didn't know he was working on a new version of Ernst Lubitsch's little-seen 1932 drama, but he embraced the challenge. Serious movie lovers tend to view remakes at best with caution and at worst ...

22/09/2014 - French director François Ozon returns with The New Girlfriend, a brilliant movie about identity, new families and freedom film profile], a brilliant movie about identity, new families and ...

Prolific French director François Ozon touched down in Venice on Tuesday with his adaptation of Albert Camus’s absurdist classic The Stranger about a French expat living in colonial 1930s French ...

French filmmaker Francois Ozon has been blasted by local politicians for telling THR, "it’s a fantasy of many women to do prostitution" and “there is kind of a passivity that women are looking for.” ...

Ten years ago, François Ozon’s dark, Hitchcock-tinged melodrama See the Sea caught the attention of American film critics. The New York Times’ Janet Maslin marked him as “an impressive new filmmaker ...

The playful French auteur talks about the “game of cinema,” sleeping through Hitchcock’s "Rear Window" and why he considers his audience monsters. By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief In his new ...

After “Peter van Kant,” French director François Ozon goes many shades lighter to revisit gender and power dynamics in “The Crime Is Mine,” a lush ensemble comedy set in 1930s Paris. Loosely inspired ...

[ indieWIRE’s weekly reviews are written by critics from Reverse Shot. ] Overpowered or indifferent, she submits with a bleary-eyed stoicism, then retreats to straighten up in the bathroom, getting ...

François Ozon’s Frantz is an exquisitely sad film, its crisp black and white cinematography shot through with mourning. The French director, in a work where the main language is German, engages with ...

04/09/2016 - VENICE 2016: French filmmaker François Ozon talks about how Frantz came about, his latest film, which was unveiled in competition at Venice The play and the film by Lubitsch end with ...