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5 X 2 (OZON)
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Talented French director Francois Ozon (Swimming Pool) structures this intimate chamber drama in reverse chronological order, charting the dissolution of a young couple's marriage from the finalization of their divorce to their initial romantic encounter. The principal characters (excellently played by Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi and Stephane Freiss) experience affection, inertia, anger, and pain as they fumble towards the realization that reconciliation is no longer possible. "It integrates ordinary pleasures, anxiety, joy, doubt and loneliness into a slightly melancholy portrait that's deceptively simple but never dull" (Variety). In French with English Francois Ozon---France---2005---90 mins.
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8 WOMEN (DENEUVE)
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Three generations of fabulous French actresses are featured in Francois Ozon's musical mystery comedy. When a wealthy industrialist is found murdered, eight women close to him become the most likely suspects. Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Huppert, Emmanuelle Beart, Fanny Ardant, Virginie Ledoyen, Danielle Darrieux, Ludivine Sagnier, and Firmine Richard are the glamorous leading ladies. "Decked out in full '50s Technicolor, the film marries an Agatha Christie murder mystery to Sirkian melodrama, vintage pop musical numbers, and Ozon's own mischievous wit, which sneaks a few dark twists into an otherwise bubbly affair" (Scott Tobias, The Onion A.V. Club). In French with Francois Ozon---France---2002---111 mins.
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CRIMINAL LOVERS
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Francois Ozon begins this feature like a mordant comedy of violent, youthful excess, then reveals it as a modern-day, openly sexual fairy tale with satirical underpinnings. A sexy, jealous teenaged girl convinces her naive and sexually ambiguous boyfriend to kill the handsome classmate who has spurned her. Their attempt to hide the body turns disastrous when a primitive and lonely woodsman takes them prisoner. This is Hansel & Gretel on the wild side. Starring Natacha Regnier (The Dreamlife of Angels), Jeremie Renie r (La Promesse), and the always enjoyable Miki Manojlovic (Underground, Cabaret Balkan). In French with English subtitles. Francois Ozon---France---1999---90 mins.
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FRANCOIS OZON: CURTAIN RAISER
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From the director of Swimming Pool comes seven short films loosely linked by sexual subjects, gay themes, and strange self-discoveries. In A Curtain Raiser (2006, 30 mins.), Bruno (Louis Garrel) is waiting on his girlfriend, Rosette (Vahina Giocante), with some friends and decides that if she makes him wait more than 45 minutes, it's over. X2000 (1998, 5 mins.) offers up the nudity viewers associate with the director's notorious works like Sitcom. In it, three couples wake up, make love, and surve y the remains of a millennium party thrown the night before. Bad Scenes (1997, 26 mins.) is a series of seven brief vignettes dealing with, you guessed it, sex. In Little Death (1995, 26 mins.), Paul (Francois Delaive) is a young photographer estranged from his family. When he siste r convinces him to visit his father on his deathbed, memories of a loveless childhood push him in a new direction. Truth or Dare (1994, 4 mins.) deals with four adolescent boys and girls playing a seemingly harmless game of truth or dare. An older British woman takes a young hairdresser out for a wild night in A Rose Between Us (1994, 27 mins.). Lastly, Victor (1993, 14 mins.) is somewhat of a precursor to Ozon's Under the Sand in that Victor (Francois Genty) thinks it's alright to keep the corpses of his dead Francois Ozon---France---1993-2006---132 mins.
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HIDEAWAY (LE REFUGE)
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From the director of Swimming Pool comes this sensual, understated film about a pair of young junkies in love. After "pushing off" in the introduction, Mousse (Isabelle Carre) is shocked to witness her boyfriend overdose. Making matters worse, she's carrying his child. And when the deceased's lookalike brother arrives to help...
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POTICHE
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Catherine Deneuve plays a trophy wife in Ozon's sophisticated comedy set in 1977. Though her father started a successful factory, her arrogant husband has driven the workers to strike. She calls on an old boyfriend (Depardieu) to get the workers back on line, but her husband screws up the negotiations. That's when she asserts her girl power.
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RICKY (OZON)
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"If David Lynch and David Cronenberg had sex and one of them magically got pregnant, this film could be their offspring" (John Waters).
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SEE THE SEA
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A woman vacations with her infant daughter on beautiful, beachfront property, awaiting the return of her husband. A mysterious, brooding backpacker arrives and is reluctantly allowed to camp outside the cottage. The young mother becomes fascinated by her visitor, allowing her into her home and leaving the baby in her care in spite of her odd, increasingly sinister behavior. "It's a voluptuous, heat-of-summer tale that makes the blood run cold" (Amy Taubin, Village Voice). In French with English subtitles. Francois Ozon---France---1997---52 mins.
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SITCOM (OZON)
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In Ozon's menacing first feature, the "normal" life of a family is disrupted when dad brings home a pet rat, awakening repressed sexual and psychological desires.
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SWIMMING POOL (OZON)
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Francois Ozon pairs his favorite leading lady, Charlotte Rampling, with ingenue Ludivine Sagnier in this "sunlit noir, oozing sensuality and menace" (Chicago Trib).
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TIME TO LEAVE
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Ever the eclectic filmmaker, French New New Wave director Francois Ozon tries his hand at tear-jerking drama with this film starring Melvil Poupaud.
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UNDER THE SAND
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Charlotte Rampling gives a subtle performance of enormous emotional depth in this enigmatic feature from Francois Ozon (See the Sea, Water Drops on Burning Rocks). Rampling plays a middle-aged woman in a complacent but seemingly happy marriage. Her life changes dramatically when her husband (Bruno Cremer) disappears without a trace while the couple is on vacation. While the uncertainty of the husband's fate is constantly in the air, the film's central focus is the adjustment of Rampling's character to life alone and her tentative steps toward a new relationship. In French and English with Francois Ozon---France---2001---95 mins.
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WATER DROPS ON BURNING ROCKS
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Based on an unproduced play by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Francois Ozon's film takes place entirely in the Berlin bachelor pad of a sophisticated, middle-aged man. He manages to seduce the handsome 19-year-old he has just picked up, but their relationship takes some surprising twists as the younger man's fiancee and the older man's former lover arrive on the scene. "...for the duration of this mordant, mischievous film you have no real desire to leave their fastidiously decorated purgatory" (A.O. Scott, New York Times). In French with English subtitles. Francois Ozon---France---1999---82 mins.
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X2000- FRANCOIS OZON SHORTS
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Four short films from director Francois Ozon (Sitcom, See the Sea), one of the most provocative French directors to emerge from the 1990s. X2000 (1998) is an unusual look at the dawn of the new millenni um in which three naked couples sleep and make love in a skyscraper littered with party debris. In Truth or Dare (1994), the harmless children's game becomes a window to the pain and uncertainty of emerging sexuality for four teenagers. Little Death (1995) is a devastating tale of a photograph er visiting his estranged father, who is dying in the hospital. Bed Scenes (1997) is a series of comic sketches on sexual behavior following various couples at different levels of passion. In French with English subtitles. Francois Ozon---France---1994-1998---61 mins.
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