Background
François Ozon was born on 15 November 1967 in Paris, Ile-de-France, France.
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François Ozon was born on 15 November 1967 in Paris, Ile-de-France, France.
8 Femmes is an all-star murder mystery, fondly old-fashioned, and likely to repeat its French success all over the world. But it would be a mistake to identify Ozon with its nostalgic style or attitude. He is a film-school kid who made movies on Super 8 as a teenager and naturally carried on in a series of short films, many of which are funny, prettv (in the best sense), and so piquant as narratives as to make one ask yet again—what happened to the short?
But there is a darker or graver Ozon, most evident so far in See the Sea, which builds from calm and friendship to a troubling climax; a murder story in Criminal Lovers; and—best of all—Under the Sand, in which Charlotte Rampling is a woman who “loses” her husband and has to go through mourning to whatever else may be beyond. With the eloquent image of Rampling, Under the Sand was a little reminiscent of Antonioni with Monica Vitti. It makes me hope that there are great films—far better than 8 Women— to come from Ozon.